The Types of Conflict in The Interlopers

In this essay, I will discuss the types of conflict in the interlopers. It's a matter between two characters like man vs man, or between the character and itself like man vs self, it could be between the character and nature like man vs nature and the last type of conflict is man vs society.

The main conflict is man vs. man, the whole story stands by hatred between the two men, they consider it like a legacy from old centuries. They transfer a problem from generation to generation and recruit grandchildren to fight each other until they take it in a personal way and hunt each other no matter what. For example, “The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment.”

Moreover, there is another conflict falls under the same type 'man vs. man', the fallen tree didn't make the two men retreat from the fighting and they got angry more and more, neither of them thinks of the other, and whoever men reach him first and save him won. A good example could be “Good,' snarled Georg, 'good. We fight this quarrel out to the death, you and I and our foresters, with no cursed interlopers to come between us.”

The second conflict is man vs. self, nothing better than a necessary session with self in unexpected circumstances, like being stuck under a fallen tree with your arch enemy, Ulrich concludes that he has to find a solution instead of fighting. An example, “In the pain and languor that Ulrich himself was feeling the old fierce hatred seemed to be dying down.”

In addition, another conflict is Individual Vs. Society, in spite of the fighting between the two men and the hatred that they carry in their hearts towards each other, societal values are more important than hate and fight. For example, “But a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining civilization cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbor in cold blood and without a word spoken”.

One of the main conflict types is man vs. nature, changes in nature seem to contribute to changing behaviour, in this case, the falling tree helped the two men to stop fighting and help each other to get out of the falling beech tree. A good example of this is “And before the moment of hesitation had given way to action a deed of Nature's own violence overwhelmed them both. A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads, and ere they could leap aside a mass of falling beech tree had thundered down on them.” Furthermore, there is another example of man vs. Nature conflict, which is “Wolves”, and this shows that nature controls its elements continuously.

In conclusion, conflict helps us to come up with the characters ideas and how they communicate with each other. In my opinion, conflict is one of the most important things in the story, and with it, we extract main ideas.