Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis is a fantasy book chronicling the four siblings Edmund, Lucy, Peter, and Susan’s travels to Narnia. In Prince Caspian, the siblings travel back to the magical land Narnia. Since they were last back in Narnia, hundreds of years have passed. In this book in the series The Chronicles of Narnia, the siblings help Prince Caspian regain his rightful throne. The four siblings and Prince Caspian struggle with an external conflict of person vs. person against the evil King Miraz, who killed Prince Caspian’s father and took the throne, because Peter fights King Miraz and tries to stay alive when the entire Telmarine army attacks.
Peter fights King Miraz in a one-on-one sword duel and wins. This is an example of an external conflict because this is person vs. person. For example, …show more content…
This is shows external conflict because Peter is struggling against other people to stay alive. The book says, “Peter hardly understood what was happening. He saw two big men running toward him with drawn swords. Then the third Telmarine had leaped over the ropes on his left. ‘To arms, Narnia. Treachery!’ Peter shouted. If all three had set upon him at once he would never have spoken again. But one of them stopped to stab his own King dead where he lay.” This is a person vs. person external conflict because Peter is trying to survive the influx of Telmarines charging at him.
Prince Caspian is a novel that exemplifies an external conflict because Peter is trying to kill Miraz in a duel and then survive an attack of Telmarine troops. The external conflict shaped the plot because if the conflict was nonexistent, then the story would just be about the siblings’ second adventure in Narnia. Peter was changed by the external person vs. person conflict so that he would be the hero of the