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For examples, let’s look at some literature that I sincerely hope everyone is familiar with: J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Each volume of the Harry Potter series expertly uses both internal and external conflicts to drive the plot, create suspense, and keep you turning the pages.
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the big external conflict involves Harry Potter’s struggle to stop Voldemort from stealing the sorcerer’s stone and returning to power. For much of the book, however, he doesn’t know that’s the real conflict, and other external conflicts are set up between Harry and Malfoy and Harry and Snape.
Harry’s internal conflict revolves around learning to accept this completely new reality he has been plunged into. He grew up as a poor, abused, lonely orphan living under his aunt and uncle’s stairs, and suddenly he is famous and powerful. He still feels lonely and lost at times, even though he now has great friends and is on his way to becoming a successful wizard.
The Harry Potter books masterfully weave internal conflicts into many of the side characters’ psyches as well. We watch Ron struggle with his desire to compete with his brothers and even with Harry. We see Hermione’s internal conflict manifest whenever she is faced with a choice to help Harry with a crazy plan or to follow the rules.
Even Snape, who is first presented as thoroughly villainous, eventually shows a softer side and the deep inner conflict at the root of his harsh treatment of Harry. Wise Dumbledore makes a fatal mistake due to his internal conflict.
Another example is when Emilie offered Hamlet as an example of an internally conflicted character. Hamlet wants to kill his stepfather to avenge his father, but he also feels that he must first have proof that the ghost is his father and is telling the truth about the murder. Hamlet’s conflict here is how to act in a noble manner and discover the truth of his father’s murder. This causes him to do nothing until it is too late, and so his internal conflict can be viewed as leading to his downfall.
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