'Psychological Conflicts in Literature(1) Essay\r'

'We all experience mental conflicts, knowingly or unknowingly. They involve psychological conflicts among our thoughts, emotions, and rational thinking. It may be the well-nigh dangerous conflict of all ascribable to the battleground in which it take dedicate in †our mind.\r\nThere are many an(prenominal) examples of psychological conflicts in the stories we have read. In â€Å"Leiningen Versus the Ants” by Carl Stephenson, Leiningen battled not only on his South American plantation, merely in his mind. He struggled with the issue of running forth and letting the ants take over his plantation. He wasn’t a quitter and enjoys the mental aspects of things. only if when the ants and the reality of death came, he had to unthaw the conflict whether to stay or flee. This was peculiarly true when he ran to the dam wheel. He could of fled then or died, only when he chose to try to save the plantation and workers. He was go about with the conflict living or, by chance the greatest psychological conflict, which he firm when he chose to run to the wheel.\r\nIn â€Å"The circumscribe of the Dead Man’s Pockets” by Jack Finney, Tom also approach a psychological conflict. The story was in the first place focused on his physical conflict, but near the end he experience psychological conflict. As with Leiningen, Tom faced the choice to die or to live, and he realized with that conflict how much his wife meant to him. He overcame the conflict when, as we read, the xanthous paper flew out the window again, but he left to be with his wife.\r\nIn â€Å"Blues Ain’t No Mockin’bird” by Toni Cade Bambara, Granny undergo a psychological conflict with her old treatment and her current conflict with Smiley and Camera. She struggled to uprise and maybe actually kill them or fall into depression, but she was successful in winning the conflict. When she hummed in a broad(prenominal) pitch instead of low, it showed t hat she had finally won.\r\nIn conclusion, psychological conflicts are important. They can be very dangerous because we are trash in spite of appearance ourselves and our rational reasoning. And when we fight within ourself it is hard to win. Psychological conflicts can be won, however, by set priorities and moral standards.\r\n'