Writing Prompt Topic: Most often, literary works have both internal conflict (individual v. self) and external conflict (individual v. individual, society, nature, or technology). Additionally, one can often find that a character's internal conflict is linked to an external one. Choose a text in which both an internal and external conflict are evident to you. How does the external conflict illuminate the internal one? What meaningful parallels or incongruences do you observe when comparing the two, and what is the significance within the context of the story?
I am choosing the Drama Macbeth (Shakespeare, 1606) -Appendix B in Journey into Literature
Working thesis: The conflict identified in the drama Macbeth by William Shakespeare centres on Macbeth's desires for power and his internal demons his actions, showing that human struggle against good and evil.
Write a two and a half page draft with title and reference page. The draft needs to contain a working thesis (which is above), an introduction, at least three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Need to include paraphrases and quotations of the references.
- Focus on one or two primary texts
- Include references from at least two secondary sources
- Apply your knowledge of literacy elements and other concepts in your response to the prompt
- Avoid any use of the first person
- DO NOT SUMMARIZE THE PLOT