Conflict REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

3.2 Conflict

In the development of the content in the story, conflict is composed from several events and incidents befell the characters that are involved in a story. Therefore, conflict is the most important element in the story because with its existences, the writer will understand how the story goes on and without conflict the story can not be formed. Perrine states that: “There is conflict in a chess game, where the competitors sit quite still for hours, as surely as in a wrestling match; emotional conflict may be raging within a person sitting in an empty room. It occurs because of the differences between two opposite things such as aims, principle, opinion, etc. Generally conflict is well known as a clash between two opposing people or community, or event wills and desires in one person. The conflict may be physical, mental, emotional, or moral. It is natural situation for it is known that human always have problems. The existence of conflict in literary work is caused by action. It happens in character’s life in a story, whether internal and external conflict. Conflict is divided into two categories as the following: Conflict is a clash of actions, ideas, desires, or wills”. Character may be pitted against some other person or group of persons conflict of person against person; they may be in conflict with some external force-physical nature, society, or “fate” conflict of person against environment; or they may be in conflict with some elements in their own natures conflict of person against himself or herself. The conflict may be physical, mental, emotional, or moral Perrine, 1984: 42. 62 The statement above explains that conflict is divided into two, they are internal and external conflict. Internal conflict is a conflict with some elements in their own natures, such as person against himself or herself. While external conflict is a conflict which may be pitted against other person or group of person; it may be conflict with external force, physical nature, society, or environment. Wellek and Warren 1989 : 85 say that conflict is something dramatic, referring to a fight between two powers that balance and it also referring an action and revenge of action. It happen in human’s outlook, not in literary works, that’s why, people prefer to live in peace and avoid the conflict.

3.3 Setting