AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Paper 1
- Revise: Conflict and violence
- Revise: Key quotations
A struggle within a character between competing feelings, duties or beliefs.
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GCSE English Literature · key term
A struggle within a character between competing feelings, beliefs or loyalties.
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Paper 1
A struggle within a character between competing feelings, duties or beliefs.
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In Act 3 Scene 2, Juliet learns that her husband has killed her cousin. Her description of Romeo as “Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!” uses oxymorons to express internal conflict. The contradictory words hold attraction and horror together.
A struggle within a person’s thoughts or feelings.
Paper 2
A struggle within a person’s thoughts, feelings or desires, rather than a fight between separate people.
Revise: EnvyMary Lamb’s Envy explores a familiar kind of unhappiness: wanting somebody else’s gifts so much that you overlook your own. Its conflict is not a battle between armies. It is an internal conflict between what a person is and what they wish they could be.
A contrast between opposing feelings, desires or beliefs within a person.
A struggle within a person's thoughts, feelings or beliefs, rather than a physical struggle between opponents.