What are some different kinds of conflict in a narrative?

Answer 1

When writing your story or novel, you will need conflict to make it more interesting. Here are some different types of conflict that you can use:

• External Conflict is a struggle with some force outside the character
• Internal Conflict is a struggle with the character's own personality, a mental struggle to overcome his or her own bad habits, to make a tough decision, to handle hardship, or some other difficult internal battle.

Once you decide which of these types of conflict you want to use - or both! - you can move on to thinking about several general categories:

• Man vs. Circumstances (the classical struggle) - the characters struggle to overcome outside circumstances in their lives, fate, destiny, etc.
• Man vs. Himself (the psychological struggle) - the characters struggle to overcome their own natures, physical limitations, moral choices, ideas of right vs. wrong, etc.
• Man vs. Man (the physical struggle) - the characters struggle to overcome a villain of some sort, a force of nature, or animals.
• Man vs. Society (the social struggle) - the characters struggle against customs and ideas of the culture they live in.
  

Answer 2

Some different kinds of conflict in a narrative include character vs. character (protagonist against antagonist), character vs. self (internal struggle), character vs. society (struggling against societal norms or expectations), and character vs. nature (struggling against the environment or natural forces).

Answer 3

Character vs Character

Character vs Self

Character vs Society

Character vs Nature

Answer 4

Anything that prevents the characters from reaching their goals is a conflict! This could literally be anything you can think of.