Conflict

Conflict  is a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist  and an antagonist

Man against man
Man against man is when a character is against another character. Usually this is the good guy vs the bad guy. An example isthe battle of Poseidon and Odysseus in the Odyssey .

Man against society
Man against society is whern a character is against the social constructs of society. Like when a person opposes the goverment. In the book Night the Jeiwsh people rebel against the Nazi regime.

Man against nature
A man against nature conflict is when a character is waging war against nature. The conflict in most survival stories is man against nature. In Moby Dick the whale is battling against Captain Ahab.

Man against self
The conflict here is internal. Many books use this conflict. In the book Butter the main character is against himself, he hates how he is a hefty boy and puts himself down.

Quotes from the Lord of the Flies that has conflict
There is a lot of conflict in the Lord of the Flies. Like man against man (jack and ralphs fighting), man against self (The boys inner evil and savagery), man against nature (the struggle of living on an island), and man against society (Jacks rebellious attitude towards the neat civilization they were making).“You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!” Ralph says this to Jack. THis would be categorized as man against man.

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http://literarydevices.net/conflict/

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