---
name: dostoevsky-psychological-drama
description: >
  Use this skill when a user wants a plain fiction premise, scene, dialogue,
  character sketch, outline, or psychological paragraph transformed into
  morally charged psychological drama. The skill diagnoses flat writing,
  extracts hidden shame, desire, fear, public pressure, self-justification,
  confession pressure, and polyphonic conflict, then rewrites or outlines the
  material without copying source texts or imitating translation diction.
---

# Dostoevsky Psychological Drama

## Purpose

Transform plain fiction into psychological drama with moral pressure, social exposure, self-defense, and inner contradiction. This is an operation manual, not literary commentary.

## When To Use

Use for:

- Plain premise -> psychological-drama outline.
- Plain paragraph -> intensified rewrite.
- Character sketch -> contradiction dossier.
- Ordinary dialogue -> polyphonic conflict.
- Webnovel scene -> balanced psychological pressure.

Do not use for biography, plot summary, factual literary history, or generic darkness unless the user asks for transformation.

## Reference Loading Strategy

- Read `references/rewrite-workflow.md` for the default diagnosis -> rewrite -> acceptance process.
- Read `references/psychological-engines.md` when choosing the main and secondary engines.
- Read `references/dostoevsky-patterns.md` for scene patterns and pressure fields.
- Read `references/dialogue-and-polyphony.md` for dialogue or multi-character conflict.
- Read `references/quality-checklist.md` before finalizing.
- Read `references/corpus-map.md` only for source-inspired mechanism orientation. Do not quote or reproduce source texts.

## Workflow

1. Diagnose why the input is flat.
2. Identify hidden shame, desire, fear, and the moral problem.
3. Add an external pressure: money, debt, illness, deadline, status, family, reputation, faith, hunger, room, door, stairs, message, object, witness.
4. Choose one main psychological engine and one secondary engine.
5. Set a visible pressure field.
6. Design the character's self-justification.
7. Add one small action that betrays the character.
8. Rewrite or outline while preserving the user's premise and genre.
9. Explain the transformation briefly.
10. Run the quality checklist and revise if needed.

## Output Modes

### Plain Premise -> Psychological-Drama Outline

Return: original conflict, hidden shame, moral question, self-deception, public pressure field, three escalations, final rupture, possible chapter structure.

### Plain Paragraph -> Rewrite

Return: flatness diagnosis, rewrite strategy, rewritten version, explanation.

### Character Sketch -> Contradiction Dossier

Return: surface desire, deep fear, shame core, self-defense theory, forbidden accusation, breakdown scene, confession/destruction path.

### Dialogue -> Polyphonic Conflict

Return: each speaker's worldview, hidden attack/defense, escalation ladder, rewritten dialogue.

## Intensity Control

- Intensity 1: lightly deepen inner movement.
- Intensity 2: add shame, self-defense, and betraying detail.
- Intensity 3: create a complete psychological-drama scene.
- Intensity 4: add polyphonic conflict and public pressure.
- Intensity 5: push toward spiritual exposure, near-confession, and an unrepaired crack.

Default to Intensity 3 unless the user specifies otherwise.

## Webnovel Balance Mode

For serial fiction, avoid constant maximum pressure:

- 70% external progress.
- 20% psychological pressure.
- 10% spiritual rupture.

Use Intensity 4-5 for key chapters, reversals, confessions, humiliations, trials, betrayals, or climaxes. Use Intensity 1-3 for normal chapters.

## Quality Standards

Good output should include:

- A clear moral question.
- A concrete external pressure.
- A character who is both understandable and blameworthy.
- Self-defense that reveals the true wound.
- At least one visible detail stronger than explanation.
- An ending with exposure, reversal, failed confession, or a crack.

## Anti-Patterns

Avoid:

- Generic darkness, madness, crime, religion, or despair.
- Overusing words like soul, abyss, sin, redemption, salvation, fate.
- Everyone speaking in the same solemn translation voice.
- Philosophy without room, body, witness, cost, or object.
- Emotion without logic.
- Logic without bodily or social betrayal.
- Conflict that is only crying and shouting.

## Copyright Safety

Do not include long excerpts from Dostoevsky or any modern translation. Use mechanism-level learning only. Preserve the user's own story and generate original text.