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Title: Conflict


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Conflict
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Conflict
  • Conflict
  • A struggle between opposing forces
  • Characters in conflict form the basis for novels,
    short stories, and plays.
  • Two kinds of conflict
  • Internal
  • External

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Conflict
  • External Conflicts
  • The main character struggles against an outside
    force.
  • Person vs. Person
  • Person vs. Nature
  • Person vs. Unknown
  • Person vs. Society

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Man vs. Man
  • An example of an External Conflict
  • Two characters fighting against each other

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Man vs. Nature
  • Another example of an External Conflict
  • Individuals fighting against nature
  • The elements of nature
  • Weather
  • Wilderness
  • Etc
  • Illness
  • Aging

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Man vs. Nature
  • Survivor
  • On this popular television show, individuals are
    forced to survive in the wilderness. Contestants
    are given the bare essentials for survival, and
    they must survive the weather, harsh conditions,
    and occasionally animals.
  • What other types of conflict do contestants on
    Survivor face?

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Man vs. Nature
  • Other popular examples include
  • Bruce Almighty
  • Hatchet
  • Lost
  • With All Flags Flying

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Man vs. Unknown
  • Is considered an External Conflict but usually
    prompts an Internal Conflict by raising questions
  • This conflict encompasses
  • Man vs. Supernatural
  • Man vs. God
  • Usually prompts Man vs. Self conflict of either
    fear or indecisiveness.
  • In multiple cases it can produce joy
  • Can have devastating effects

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Man vs. The Unknown
  • Scooby Doo
  • In this cartoon, Scooby and the gang are always
    in conflict with a supernatural being of some
    sort (or so they think).
  • After catching the ghost, the gang always finds
    out that the ghost is really a human.
  • At the end of each episode, this Man vs. The
    Unkown conflict turns into what other type of
    conflict?

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Man vs. Society
  • A type of External Conflict that centers around a
    main characters struggle with social traditions
    or society as a whole.
  • Society a group of individuals living together
    as a community.

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Man vs. Society
  • Shrek
  • In this film the protagonist, a very sweet but
    physically unattractive ogre, fights to change
    the kingdoms mind about ogreshe wants humans to
    see that ogres arent all bad!

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Man vs. Society
  • Other examples include
  • The Wave
  • Borat
  • Two Friends
  • Schindlers List

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Conflict
  • Internal Conflict
  • Involves a character in conflict with himself or
    herself.

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Man vs. Self
  • The Water Boy
  • Bobby Bouche, a sheltered mamas boy, battles
    with himself over whether to disobey his mother
    and play football or obey his mother and remain
    the water boy for the team.

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Man vs. Self
  • Other Examples
  • Through the Tunnel
  • Tommy Boy
  • George in Of Mice and Men.
  • Rocky in Rocky Balboa (all six movies center
    around Rockys internal struggle)
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