1 / 33

Literary Conflict

Literary Conflict. Conflict. In a story, conflict is the struggle between opposing forces. There is conflict in EVERY story. No conflict = no story. Plot. Plot is the literary element that describes the structure of a story. It shows arrangement of events and actions within a story.

fsontag
Download Presentation

Literary Conflict

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Literary Conflict

  2. Conflict • In a story, conflict is the struggle between opposing forces. • There is conflict in EVERY story. No conflict = no story

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

  4. Protagonist • The main character

  5. Antagonist • The character in conflict with the main character But it’s not always that simple…

  6. External Conflict takes place outside of the body External

  7. External There are four types of external conflict

  8. Man vs. Man The struggle is between two or more characters in the story. External

  9. External Man vs. Nature This type of conflict pits a story's main character or characters against a natural force such as a flood, predatory animal, or disease epidemic.

  10. External Man Against Society In many stories, the protagonist battles against element of government or culture.

  11. External Man vs. God / Fate In many stories, the protagonist battles against forces beyond this world: God, fate or the supernatural

  12. Internal Internal Conflict takes place inside of the body/mind.

  13. Internal Man vs. Self Some literary conflicts take the form of a character struggling to overcome fear, addiction, emotional damage or other crippling personal issue.

  14. Conflict As in life….conflicts overlap. The protagonist may be struggling with ALL these forces.

  15. Why do we care? • Identify the conflict(s) • How does the protagonist respond to the conflict? • Who wins? = THEME

  16. Practice Decide what type of conflict is being illustrated in the following pictures

  17. 1. Man vs. ?

  18. 2. Man vs. ?

  19. 3. Man vs. ?

  20. 4. Man vs.

  21. 5. Man vs. ?

  22. 6. Man vs. ?

  23. 7. Man vs. ?

  24. Practice Now that you have mastered pictures, let’s try some text!

  25. 8. Man vs. ? “If she had only proceeded more slowly. If she had only taken the Southerly route, avoiding the icebergs. If only the watch had had a pair of binoculars.” (news story about the Titanic)

  26. 9. Man vs. ? Charles decided to break all the rules the day he decided to steal that car. He was immediately arrested and sent to jail to await his trial. He should have known better than to mess with the “rules.”

  27. 10. Man vs. ? “I don’t care who you talk to!” screamed Sarah to West. “I just wish I had never met you!”

  28. 11. Man vs. ? After the light in the cave was completely gone Tom began to stumble through the cave blindly cutting his hands on what appeared to be sharp rocks.

  29. 12. Man vs. ? Tom found a dry spot to sit down in the dark and began to feel guilty over an argument he had had earlier in the day with his mother in which he had said, “I hope I never see you again!”

  30. 13. Man vs. ? Tom’s mother was upset that he wanted to skip going to college in order to go exploring in all of the world’s greatest caves before he turned thirty. Tom didn’t understand what the big deal was and wanted to run his own life.

  31. POINT OF VIEW First Person = I Second Person = You Third Person = He/She/They

  32. POINT OF VIEW THIRD PERSON = Limited or Omniscient

  33. POINT OF VIEW epistolary letter

More Related