ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -What is Conflict? Simply put, conflict is a struggle between two opposing forces. Examining conflict can help when doing a character analysis. To understand conflict in literature, become familiar with the key character terms, as well as the types of conflict a character encounters.

Detailed explanation-2: -A conflict is a struggle or an opposition. If you and your best friend both fall in love with the same person, you will have to find some way to resolve the conflict. Conflict comes from the Latin word for striking, but it isn’t always violent. Conflict can arise from opposing ideas.

Detailed explanation-3: -The opposing force created, the conflict within the story generally comes in four basic types: Conflict with the self, Conflict with others, Conflict with the environment and Conflict with the supernatural. Conflict with the self, the internal battle a lead character has within, is often the most powerful.

Detailed explanation-4: -It can also often be viewed as the dramatic force that pushes forward the antagonist (in opposition to the protagonist). Essentially conflict is the force that pushes up against a desire, thereby complicating it, obstructing it, or subverting it.

Detailed explanation-5: -In a story we want something to happen, usually something bad. Until it does, we’re not very interested. Tension might be the mother of fiction, but problems are the mother of tension. In fiction, those problems are called conflict. More precisely, conflict means thwarted, endangered, or opposing desire.