Check out “Male Fantasies”
Hierarchy involves fratricide. Think of the Incas.
To “break” a person, you need to take away affection, love, sex, comfort, all of those things. For example, Eko from LOST, who is forced by gang members at a young age to execute a fellow villager and later becomes part of said gang.
Voldemort has to kill in order to become immortal.
Fantasy vs. Reality (also, what is realism, and does that equal what is true?)
dreaming — if you can control someone’s imagination, you can control them. Ads are full of dreams.
Usually, we think realism is something that feels real, but they are not necessarily realism.