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    Conflict is a necessary element of fiction according to many experts. For a story to engage readers, the conflict must be immediate, urgent and seemingly impossible to solve from the protagonist's perspective. Simply defining conflict as good versus evil results in a weak story, as different readers may prefer good or evil differently. True conflict is defined as the central problem or problems faced by characters, especially the protagonist, in driving the narrative forward.

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    Conflict is a necessary element of fiction according to many experts. For a story to engage readers, the conflict must be immediate, urgent and seemingly impossible to solve from the protagonist's perspective. Simply defining conflict as good versus evil results in a weak story, as different readers may prefer good or evil differently. True conflict is defined as the central problem or problems faced by characters, especially the protagonist, in driving the narrative forward.

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    Conflict is generally speaking a necessary element of fictional literature. As Brooks and Warren said in Understanding Fiction and as many others have noted, no conflict, no story. Often it is difficult for readers to discern conflict in sophisticated fiction but its locus is always focused on the protagonist. In order for the story to engage the reader or spectator, the conflict can usually be discerned as immediate, urgent, and insoluble. Furthermore, the conflict that is one between good and evil depends upon whether the reader or spectator prefers good or evil and is thus a slight story at best. It is defined as the problem in any piece of literature and is often classified according to the nature of the protagonist or antagonist, as follows:

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