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Author: HeartOfAnAstronaut

Nov 28th 2012 at 10:49:37 AM

* This is played with in ArrestedDevelopment. The subtext to Tobias' character is that he is gay, but doesn't know it and expresses this by making a lot of unintentional FreudianSlip double innuendos. Sometimes people will point out what he's just said, and how it might be construed (for example, when he sees his wife flirting with another man he says it's interesting that she'd go for someone "so close to my own type") and every time he denies that there's anything odd about the way they speak.
* The main theme of the play AnInspectorCalls is that people must treat each other with kindness, because the smallest actions we take can have terrible repercussions, especially for the wealthy and privileged. Members of the Birling family take different lengths of time to figure this out, and it only becomes text at the end of the play, just before the MindScrew -y Wham Line

Stratadrake: but the moment you Lampshade the subtext and admit that there's this unspoken issue, that's a plot development. A character might be facing an issue they tried to ignore for the first time, or might be confronting a loved one about their habits. In some cases the Subtext of a work is never acknowledged.