external conflict
struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character, which drives the dramatic action of the plot: external conflict between Macbeth and Macduff.
struggle between a person and an outside force: external conflict between parents and children.
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Origin of external conflict
1- Compare internal conflict.
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How to use external conflict in a sentence
It is no external conflict that has thus worn and bowed him down in less than half a year.
Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family | Elizabeth Rundle CharlesThe external conflict may be man challenged by nature, man embattled by society, or one man opposed by another man.
Sequential Problem Solving | Fredric Lozoexternal conflict has invariably reacted powerfully upon the internal organization of social groups.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology | Robert E. Park
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