CONFLICT power point

CONFLICT
IN
LITERATURE


Plot

Plot is the literary element that describes the structure of
a story. It shows arrangement of events and actions
within a story.


Plot Components
Climax: the turning point, the
most intense moment—either
mentally or in action
Rising Action: the series of
conflicts and crisis in the story that
lead to the climax

Falling Action: all of the
action which follows the
climax

Exposition: the start of the story,
the situation before the action starts

Resolution: the conclusion, the
tying together of all of the
threads

Plot: Conflict

Conflict is the dramatic struggle
between two forces in a story.
Without conflict, there is no plot.


Conflicts can be either….

EXTERNAL
Or

INTERNAL


EXTERNAL CONFLICT involves a
struggle between a character and a
force outside of himself.

Society
as a whole

Nature

Another
Character


INTERNAL CONFLICT is a struggle

between a character and something
within himself/herself. This could be
his/her conscience, fear, love or other
struggles of that source.


Group Work – Turn and
Talk
Read the following excerpt from Saki’s “The
Interlopers”. Turn and talk with a partner
and decide what kind of conflict is evident.
What are some solutions to this conflict?


…a mass of falling beech tree had thundered down on
them. Ulrich Von Gradwitz found himself stretched on
the ground, one arm numb beneath him and the other
held almost as helplessly in a tight tangle of forked
branches, while both legs were pinned beneath the
fallen mass. His heavy shooting boots had saved his
feet from being crushed to pieces, but if his fractures
were not as serious as they might have been, at least
it was evident that he could not move from his present
position till someone came to release him…


WHAT TYPE OF
CONFLICT?

External Conflict!
Man V. Nature
1.

What is nature as represented here?

2.

How can this struggle be resolved?

3.

What would your thoughts be at this time?


Group Work – Turn and
Talk
Now read the following excerpt
from “The Most Dangerous
Game.” Again identify the conflict
and explain what kind of conflict it
is.


Rainsford had fought his way through the
bush for two hours. “I must keep my nerve. I
must keep my nerve,” he said through tight
teeth.
He had not been entirely clear-headed when
the chateau gates snapped shut behind him. His

whole idea at first was to put distance between
himself and General Zaroff, and, to this end, he
had plunged along, spurred on by the sharp
rowels of something very like panic.


WHAT TYPE OF
CONFLICT?


Internal Conflict!
Man V. Himself
1.

What is Rainsford fighting here?

2.

What seems to have caused this conflict?


Sum Up
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There are three types of external conflict:
Man V. Man, Man V. Nature, and Man V.

Society
There is one type of internal conflict: Man
vs. Himself
Conflict is ESSENTIAL to any story