Throughout history and in every aspect of modern literature there is struggle when it comes to any dealing with mortal lives. The most common form this is portrayed is in literature and movies. There are multiple types of conflict as well being: man versus man, man versus nature, man versus self, man versus machine, man versus society,and man versus fate. Any type of conflict can be cataloged as one of the listed conflicts but there is one thing they all have in common: they all have a protagonist and an antagonist entity of some kind. The protagonist is usually a human which of course faces a challenge or turmoil of some kind. The antagonist is the one that usually brings about the conflict and isn't always human, for example it could be
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In Things Fall Apart Okonkwo time and time again is met with his own inner rage at himself and his way of life, this only intensifying as white man culture begins to become a stronger influence to others than their culture. Whether it’s his feeling of wanting to treat his daughter better like she's his son but not because she is a girl and doing such would go against his cultural values, or taking part in killing his adopted son so he does not seem weak even when he didn't want to Okonkwo challenges himself many times throughout the novel. Another example is in the short story Tell Tale Heart, which we are met with a man who struggles against himself and is insanity. In this story the antagonist kills his personal antagonist his master with his dead vulture-like eye. However when the police arrive to investigate the noise neighbors reported, even though he has killed his master and buried his heart under the floorboards, his mind kept convincing him that the heart was beating loud and that the police knew what he had done. In the end he loses to his mind and confesses to the crime the police had no idea about weeping like a newborn child. Both these conflicts are examples of Man versus self and reflect on how man can in fact be his biggest
In Things Fall Apart Okonkwo time and time again is met with his own inner rage at himself and his way of life, this only intensifying as white man culture begins to become a stronger influence to others than their culture. Whether it’s his feeling of wanting to treat his daughter better like she's his son but not because she is a girl and doing such would go against his cultural values, or taking part in killing his adopted son so he does not seem weak even when he didn't want to Okonkwo challenges himself many times throughout the novel. Another example is in the short story Tell Tale Heart, which we are met with a man who struggles against himself and is insanity. In this story the antagonist kills his personal antagonist his master with his dead vulture-like eye. However when the police arrive to investigate the noise neighbors reported, even though he has killed his master and buried his heart under the floorboards, his mind kept convincing him that the heart was beating loud and that the police knew what he had done. In the end he loses to his mind and confesses to the crime the police had no idea about weeping like a newborn child. Both these conflicts are examples of Man versus self and reflect on how man can in fact be his biggest