Thursday, July 30, 2015

what are the inward and outward conflicts?

The action of a Shakespearean tragedy always develops
through conflict.This conflict is both external and internal. It may be between two
persons, or group of persons representing opposing traits, or belongs to one of the two
groups. This is the external conflict. There may also be an internal struggle in the
mind of the hero between two opposite ideas or interests which pull him in different
directions so that the hero, torn and divided within himself, suffers the agonies of
hell. As the dramatist's art matured, the conflict became more and more internalised.
Thus there is Macbeth torn between ambitions and loyalty to the king.Othello is torn
within himself between jealousy and love, and Hamlet hesitates and broods but does
nothing. In this way the hero becomes a divided self and suffers from external conflict
as well as intense mental anguish. This is a conspicuous element of a Shakespearean
tragedy.

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