Greetings students. My name is Mr.
Washington and in today's video we're going to be discussing the different
types of conflict that can be found in a work of fiction. Today's video is brought to
you by the Hayfield Secondary School English 7 collaborative team. This video
will be about 15 minutes long and you should be taking notes along the way, but feel free to pause and stop as many times as you like if the video moves to fast. To begin with, ALL great stories must have conflict. <Audio Clip - Let's get ready to rumble!> Without conflict, the story really
wouldn't be worth reading. With most stories, the whole purpose of reading the
story is to see what problems the main character faces and to see how he or she
solves those problems. No problem, no story. So today we're going to be taking notes.
The topic of these notes is "The Types of Conflict." You're going to need something
to write with and you're going to need a copy of the Cornell notes on the types
of conflict, which should look something like this. The first thing you want to do is write
your topic and objective. That goes right at the top in the middle, just underneath
the words "Topic and Objective," and the topic, of course, is "The Types of Conflict." You'll also want to write your name, class and period, and date in the upper
right-hand corner, right about here. These notes should be stored in your binder and can be used to study for quizzes and tests, and on any assignments that deal
with types of conflict. Our standard and objective, and you don't necessarily have
to write this down but it is important to be familiar with it, there are
actually two objectives that we're going to be looking at as a part of this
presentation. The first deals with external conflict and our goal is to be
able to recognize external conflict. Our other objective deals with internal
conflict. We want to be able to recognize internal conflict and we want to be able
to tell the difference between the two. Now your essential question is something you DO need to write down. There's a spot for the essential question just beneath the "Topic and Objective" at the top of your notes. There are actually two essential
questions that we will be dealing with. The first essential question is "What is a
conflict?" The second essential question is a bit longer. That question says, "What
are the different types of conflict and how are they defined and explained?" By
the time we're done with these notes, will be able to answer both of these
questions, and we will have met our objective. So let's begin by defining a conflict.
Conflict is a problem or struggle in a story between the protagonist, who is the
main character in a story, and an opposing force, which would usually be an
antagonist, which is the force that works against the protagonist. There are
two main types of conflict that we want to be familiar with. The first type of
conflict is called an external conflict. An external conflict would look
something like this. The other type of conflict that we
want to be familiar with this called an internal conflict. An internal conflict
would look something like this. Now we've defined a conflict, let's take a
closer look at internal and external conflict, and how they would look at a
story. let's take a closer look at external
conflict external conflict is defined as a conflict that takes place between a
caricare and an outside force and will probably look something like this with a
character engaged in some sort of problem with a force outside of himself
or herself there are five main external complex and we want to be familiar with
the first type of external conflict can be described as an individual versus
individual complex the second type of external conflict is described as
individual versus nature the third is described as individual versus society
the port is described as individual versus the supernatural and the fifth
and final type of external company is described as individual versus
technology when we look at these five descriptions notice what each of them
has in common they all begin with the word individual which can sometimes be
interchange with other words such as character as in character versus
character character versus nature etcetera notice also the word versus
abbreviated as the S word versus is important because it helps explain the
two sides that are engaged in the conflict usually the protagonist and antagonist
when describing a conflict it is a good idea to use the word or prev asian
versus because it helps you clearly identify the two sides of the conflict
now that we've given them all the name let's take a look at some examples of
external conflict in works of fiction in the world around us so our first type of external complex is
called an individual or individual complex this is a conflict that takes
place between two or more characters and example might be Harry Potter vs he will
not be named in the Harry Potter series and we've got a short clip it kind of
shows you what an individual versus individual conflict might look like if
we were watching it in a movie or TV show and standing on the bones of my
father introduced has enjoyed most famous as me
to live her life for her only son she provided I could something should change individual individual conflict our next type of external conflict is
called an individual versus nature complex this is defined as a conflict
that takes place between a character and of course of nature force of nature can
be anything from an animal to a storm to a natural disaster and can be found in
all sorts of literature in movies and films are example comes from a movie
from the year 2000 called cast away starring Tom Hanks in castaway Tom Hanks
character child stranded on a desert island and has to struggle to stay alive
for four years as take a look at a clip of what it might be like to try and
struggle against nature I got a gift for you to use it on the Southern Pacific I'm
always gonna keep this on Memphis times third type of external conflict is an
individual where society this is defined as a compliment happens between
character and the laws within a community or society an example I P the Rosa Parks story in this case rosa
parks is arrested for refusing to obey an unjust law as a result of that
conflict the laws surrounding segregation in the south would
eventually change this is an individual or society complet our type of external conflict is
individual versus the supernatural this type of conflict is defined as a
conflict that occurs between the character in a supernatural force such
as werewolves vampires and other types of things that don't exist in the
natural world and example might be from the horror movie Annabelle in which
characterizes a married couple individual supernatural our final type of exercise is the
individual versus Technology this is defined as a comp that occurs between a
character and a machine or force an example might be the matrix starring
Keanu Reeves in the matrix the main character Neil fight against the agents
of the matrix which is everything from machines to computer programs to robots
there are many types of individual versus technology complex individual
versus technology not all complex are external is another
type of complex called and internal an internal conflict is a conflict that
happens within the mind of a character if we were to see an internal conflict
it might look something like this unlike external which have many
different kinds there's only one way of describing an internal conflict and that
is the individual versus self individual results of complex can be very difficult
to show because they're happening inside the mind of a character but TV shows and
movies up and find creative ways to show us
what's going on inside a character's head for example comes from the Disney
movie The Emperor's New grew one of the characters Cronk has to make a decision
whether to save a character or too little parish and here's how his
internal conflict looks on the screen like what I can do individual versus self complex alright so we look at the different
types of complex the different types of external conflict and we look at an
internal conflict examples now let's take a look at the Summary section at
the bottom of your second page of notes while your summary what you want to do
is summarized what you've learned about an internal and external conflict and
its answer to write down what an internal conflict is and what an
external conflict that concludes our lesson on the
different types of complex learned a lot and I hope to get notes
now as you read the different complex characters may be based on again