Conflict and Climax

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Unit 5

• Conflict and Climax
• Conflict conflict is the tension between
  characters, the impact of the protagonist, or the
  hero, on the antagonist or obstacles usually in
  drama and fiction but also in narrative poetry.
  The plot of a novel unfolds as the novels
  characters deal with conflict.

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• Climax climax refers to the part of a story or
  play at which a crisis is reached and resolution
  achieved.
• In a dramatic structure, there must be a
  rising suspensive action or conflict between the
  protagonist and any obstacles, which may be
  another character called antagonist, or one of
  the protagonists trait. In the case of the
  latter, then the conflict turns out an internal
  conflict. To

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• follow this suspension of action, the
  protagonist is confronted with the obstacles,
  human or unhuman. He then tries every possible
  means to overcome them in the climax, either
  overcoming it in comedy or being overcome by it
  in tragedy.

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A Horse in the Sky

• 1. What is the conflict in the story?
•     (1) Personal conflict
•      Which is more important, duty or love?
•       As a soldier, one should be dutiful and
  obedient, one should learn to kill any enemy no
  matter who he is. Ones fidelity to his duty is
  necessary to protect himself, to win victory, and
  to be a hero.  

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•   As a son of human beings, one should learn to
  love and to be loved by his fellows, one should
  learn to live harmoniously and peacefully.
  Killing and fighting are harmful, destructive and
  unlawful.
•    (2) Conflict between war and human beings

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•   It is war that destroys everything, beauty,
  humanity, love and life. It is war that changes
  human beings into fighting machine through duty
  and order. But war has its beautiful face of
  defense and justice. Is war an effective way of
  defense, or a severe destruction of human
  security?
•       (3) Conflict between war and nature?

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•     It is the wildness and difficulties of nature
  that makes war threatening and dangerous.
•    It is war that ruins the peace and makes
  nature the cruelest and biggest slaughterhouse.
•       (4)  Conflict between father and son

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•   The father respects his sons independence and
  decision, and accepts this sons decision
  peacefully and quietly, thought he disagrees with
  his son, though his heart was broken at the
  hearing of his sons decision.
•      The son respects and loves his father and
  family deeply, but he leaves his hometown

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• resolutely and determinedly. He even killed
  his beloved father in order to save the whole
  army. How cruel the war is.
•    2. What is the climax of the story?
•     To kill or not to kill
•    the magnificent falling of the beauty and the
  frailty of life
• 3. What do you think of Druse and his
  decision? Is it heroic, or ruthless, or foolish?

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A soliloquy from Hamlet

• 1. What does to be mean? Quote and then
  explain.
• Quotation to suffer the slings and arrows of
  outrageous fortune
• explanation to suffer the injustice and miseries
  of our cruel fate
• 2. What does not to be mean? Quote and then
  explain.
• Quotation to take arms against a sea of
  troubles, and by opposing end them

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• explanation to take measures to fight against
  them, and put an end to all the troubles
• 3. Tis a consumation devoutly to be
  wishd--what is this ideal state, according to
  Hamlet?
• According to Hamlet, the ideal settlement is
  death, for it could rid us of all the troubles
  and miseries physically and spiritually.
• 4. What is death compared to? What make one
  hesitate to end the troubles of life by death?

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• Death is compared to an undiscovered country. It
  is the face that the world of death is unknown to
  us all and no traveler had ever returned
  hesitates one to end his life.
• 5.  Theres the respect that makes calamity of
  so long life---- how do you understand the line?
• Here respect refers to ones consideration of
  the unknown and mysterious world. It is the
  consideration of the unknown world forces people
  to endure all the misfortunes of such a long
  life.

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• 6. What puzzled the will of death?
• It is the mysterious feature of death that
  confuses human spirit.
• 7. What influence do thoughts have upon
  resolution and action?
• Too much thoughts weaken ones resolution and
  will, as a result, ones action is prone to be
  delayed.

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• 8. What is the internal conflict that Hamlet is
  going through?
• Hamlet is in a dilemma. What should he do, take
  revenge on the king for his crime at the risk of
  his own life, or keep silent and live with
  humiliation and suffering in mind?
• 9. When, where and how should he punish the
  murderer and bring justice back to the world?

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Ambrose Bierce

• Bierce, ambrose gwinett (1842-1914?), american
  satirist, short-story writer, and journalist. He
  served in the union army during the american
  civil war (1861-1865) and as a result of
  distinguished service went west with a military
  expedition. he settled in san francisco and wrote
  brief, witty political pieces for a local
  newspaper. Bierces wit and fascination with death
  and horror earned him the nickname bitter bierce
  his mastery of the short story was compared
  favorably with that of the

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• american writer edgar allan poe. In 1913 he went
  to mexico and disappeared he is presumed to have
  died there.

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