Conflict in Literature

Conflict in Literature

  • Submitted By: Devayani
  • Date Submitted: 11/08/2008 5:33 AM
  • Category: English
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Fiction in literature is an exciting way of writing stories or poems or plays. Fictional literature has the element of conflict embedded in them. It is this conflict in the story that makes it interesting for the readers. Conflict can be the plot, or among the characters or within one character or against the society or nature. It takes several forms to make the writing interesting. There are several literary works that focus on these aspects of conflict. “The Road not Taken” shows the conflict the speaker has when he has to make a choice. The speaker walking in the woods comes to a fork from where two roads diverged. The speaker is in a dilemma about which road to choose. After much mental debate, the traveler picks the road “less travelled by”. The figurative meaning in the poem is about the tough choicespeople make while travelling in the circle of life. Words like “sigh”, “sorry” (DiYanni, pg 808) givea very sad feeling. The speaker says, “I shall be telling this with a sigh, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference” (DiYanni, pg808). The speaker is not happy about the choice he made and regrets it. Paths in the woods are metaphors for life. People are free to make choices but no one knows the consequences or end result of the choice made. “The story of an Hour” (pg38) is a story about a women’s conflict with the expectations of the society. Her reaction to her husband’sdeath conflicts with the way other women react to the same situations. As we read the story, Mrs. Mallard is happy about her husband’s death. Initially she cries as it says in the story, “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sisters Conflict in Literature arms” (DiYanni, pg 38). As weread the story, we realize that it is about repression of women in a male dominated society. Even though the theme is different, there are...

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