Types of Conflict
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WHAT IS CONFLICT??
- Conflict: the dramatic struggle between two opposing forces in a story.
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There are two types:
Internal
External
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INTERAL CONFLICT
- Character vs. Self
- A choice between right and wrong?
- Example: Your friends want you to skip school to hang out at the park? You know it's wrong, but you want them to like you. What do you do?
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EXTERNAL CONFLICT
- Conflict between a character and an outside force
- Character vs. character
- Character vs. nature
- Character vs. society
- Character vs. technology
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CHARACTER VS. CHARACTER
- "Good guy vs. Bad guy"
- One character has an issue with another character.
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CHARACTER VS. NATURE
- Character has an issue with some force of nature
- Example: A captain of a ship trying to fight his way home in a storm.
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CHARACTER VS. SOCIETY
- The character has an issue with a group, community, or society as a whole
- Example: Katnis in The Hunger Games
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CHARACTER VS. TECHNOLOGY
- Character has a problem with any type of machine
- Example: A character being pursued by robots that are trying to kill him.
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