escape plot
Plan to flee
An escape plot is a scheme devised by prisoners or captives to break free from confinement.
The term appears in accounts of war camps, prisons, and hostage situations: The guards discovered the escape plot before anyone reached the tunnel.
In fiction, escape plots drive narratives from *The Count of Monte Cristo* to *The Great Escape*.
- breakoutSudden escape from restraint
- prison breakEscape from custody
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
conspiracy · mastermind · getaway · fugitive · on the run · jailbreak · plan · hatch · wire · guards · guard tower · diversion · accomplice · freedom · bars · walls · dig · rope
- plot elementsprotagonist, antagonist, subplot, conflict, climax
- plot typeshero's journey, quest, love story, rescue mission, redemption arc
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- captivitycaptive, prisoner, detained, imprisoned, incarcerated
- plot devicesMacGuffin, red herring, flashback, foreshadowing, deus ex machina
resistance vs. compliance
escape plotsurrender
Cease resistance, yield
capitulation · submission · resignation · compliance · giving up
escape, plot, escapes, escaped, escaping, escapee, escapees, escapism, escapist