When constructing a storyline that convinces people of an extreme ideology, creators often use a variety of narrative techniques and elements. These methods are designed to enhance the appeal of the story and make the audience more receptive to and identify with a particular point of view. Here are some common strategies: 1. **Emotional resonance**: - **Strong emotional portrayal**: By showing the character's strong emotions such as pain, anger, and hope, the audience can resonate with the story and make them more receptive to the ideology conveyed by the story. - **Tragic background story**: For example, showing a society or individual struggling under extreme oppression to inspire the audience's desire for change. 2. **Create a clear "enemy" or opposite**: - **Binary opposition**: Dividing the world into "good" and "bad" simplifies complex social issues and makes it easier for the audience to identify and support one side. - **Demonize the opponent**: By exaggerating the negative characteristics of the opponent, it weakens its credibility and strengthens the legitimacy of one's own position. 3. **Heroic leaders or ideas**: - **Leadership**: Create a strong and charismatic leader who symbolizes the ideology advocated and enhances its appeal. - **Idealized ideas**: Package extreme ideologies as noble goals, such as freedom, justice or revenge, to make them appear legitimate and necessary. 4. **Simplify complex issues**: - **Black and white**: Simplify complex social, political or economic issues into a simple opposition between good and evil, making them easier for the audience to understand and accept. - **Provide "simple solutions"**: Propose seemingly direct and effective solutions, ignore potential negative effects, and enhance the appeal of ideology. 5. **Recurring symbols and slogans**: - **Symbols**: Use specific symbols, colors or logos to strengthen the recognition and memory points of ideology. - **Repeat information**: By constantly repeating core ideas or slogans, the audience's impression is deepened and internalized into personal beliefs. 6. **Create a sense of urgency and crisis**: - **Crisis plot**: Describe an imminent threat or crisis, suggesting that the problem can only be solved by accepting a specific ideology. - **Time pressure**: Set time limits to force characters and audiences to take quick action and reduce questioning and reflection on information. 7. **Use of group pressure and social identity**: - **Collective action**: Show that the majority of people support a certain ideology and use the herd mentality to enhance its credibility. - **Social reward and punishment mechanism**: Influence individual choices and behaviors by showing the consequences of supporting or opposing an ideology. 8. **Personal transformation and brainwashing process**: - **Role transformation**: Show the process of a character's transformation from suspicion to firm belief in a certain ideology, provide a model, and inspire the audience to follow suit. - **Brainwashing plot**: Show thought control or re-education through plots, implying the inevitability and rationality of extreme ideology. **Caution and responsibility**: Although understanding these narrative techniques can help analyze and prevent the spread of extreme ideology, they should be used with caution in the creative process to avoid inadvertently promoting or glorifying harmful views. As creators and audiences, we should maintain critical thinking, identify and question potential biases and manipulation methods.