The conflict in
Life is a Dream
, the famous drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, begins with false news.
By things of oracles and astrology, the king of Poland, Basilio, is convinced that his newborn son, Sigismund, will be a bloody tyrant and, in addition, a parricide.
Basilio's paranoid fantasy leads to the confinement of little Sigismund.
The latter, in the darkness of his dungeon, develops his own paranoid delusions.
The injustice he suffers makes him “a man of beasts and a beast of men” ....
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