Conflict Notes Conflict is the main struggle or opposition in a story that the protagonist has to solve or face. Conflict in stories are either: External Internal. There are 6 main types of conflict.

Conflict: Internal Character versus Self: When a character struggles with moral dilemmas, emotional challenges or desires. The conflict is with the character's own conscience or soul.

External Conflicts 1. Character versus Character: This is the most obvious form of conflict, when a character in a story struggles with another character in the story. This can be in the form of arguments, conflicting desires, opposing goals, physical confrontations or emotional dilemmas.

Conflict 2. Character versus Society: A character may feel repressed by society creating a conflict. For example, if a society opposes different religions, races, genders, sexual orientation this can create problems for characters in a story.

Conflict 3. Character versus Nature: Sometimes the forces of nature, which are out of the characters’ control, cause conflict in a story. Nature can cause conflict in the form of a flood, hurricane, snow storm and much more.

Conflict 4. Character versus Supernatural: This type of conflict is usually found in certain literary genres, such as fantasy, science fiction, horror and supernatural books. When the character comes up against aliens, divine forces or supernatural villains, such as ghosts. The main character must call upon his or her strength to defeat the fantastic enemy confronting him or her.

Conflict 5. Character versus Technology: When the character comes up against a computer virus or a robot, or anything technological.

Find Examples in the Stories Read So Far Person vs. Self Person vs. Person Person vs. Nature Person vs. Society Person vs. Supernatural Person vs. Technology