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1. (6) conflict, struggle, battle -- (an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs") 2. (4) conflict -- (opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; "he was immobilized by conflict and indecision") 3. (4) battle, conflict, fight, engagement -- (a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement") 4. (2) conflict -- (a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; "his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post"; "a conflict of loyalties") 5. (2) conflict -- (an incompatibility of dates or events; "he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings") 6. conflict -- (opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); "this form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing") 7. dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict -- (a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats")

 

 

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Working Definition:

A state of antagonism between persons, parties, or governments.

Disciplinary Definitions:

dramatic conflict: "The ancients compared the plot of a drama to the typing and untying of a knot. The principle of dramatic conflict, though not mentioned as such in Aristotle's definition of drama, is implied in this figure. The technical structure of a serius play is determined by the necessities of developing this dramatic conflict." Harmon, Holman, A Handbook to Literature

Villainy: "The viallain causes harm or injury to" a person. Propp, Morphology of the Folktale.

"The difficulties participants [in narratives] experience in trying to accomplish [goal directed] plans —whether because of overambitious goals, erroneous befliefs, unpredicted obstacles, conflicting plans hatched by other participants, mutually inconsistent descires, or other problems—confer on sequences the noteworthiness or tellability distinguishing a story from a stereotype. Action structure are mental models of such participant oriented patterns of effort, conflict, trouble, and, in some cases at least, resolution of conflict and oercoming of trouble." Herman, Story Logic, 90-91.

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NOTE: The term "conflict" is used in C-CS in the context of narrative motivation.

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