What Are Some Examples Of Conflict Will Never Change

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Conflict will never change. That is a truth of the world. War, famine, and even fighting inside of a ring are types of conflict. Conflict is a fight, both mental and physical, and it never changes. What conflict does change is one’s mind and one’s body. A man contracts cancer, and his body is in conflict with itself. A woman is battling depression, which is a form of conflict. In Macbeth, a play written by William Shakespeare, the conflict is between Macbeth and himself, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth and Macbeth against Scotland. These examples show that people change within conflict; the man with cancer will grow weaker and weaker as his cancer progresses, the woman will turn inwards and become a shell of her former self, and in Macbeth, well, he went mad. The idea, then, is that conflict changes people either for the worst, …show more content…
With the question regarding conflict and change within an individual, Macbeth in Macbeth is an outstanding example. The soldier in Act One, Scene Two, had called Macbeth “brave,” for lack of a better term, and noble. And while these words described Macbeth up to a certain point, his one glaring flaw, and ultimately the downfall of him, was his greed. With the witches giving Macbeth the prophecy, something in him broke. That something was the idea that he wanted power and while not inherently greedy, Macbeth was weak to the whims of women. Lady Macbeth, the instigator of Macbeth’s change in character, was swayed by the idea of being queen and in turn gave all her good to the darkness to become a terrible and ruthless person. With these events happening, she insulted Macbeth and promises that she would do terrible things for him. This is the point where Macbeth had to make a decision; kill King Duncan for power and love, or stay loyal and