Conflict in Literature Chart

CONFLICT IN LITERATURE CLASSICAL MAN vs. NATURE MODERN MAN vs. SOCIETY POSTMODERN MAN vs. TECHNOLOGY MAN vs. MAN MAN vs. SELF MAN vs. REALITY MAN vs. GOD MAN vs. NO GOD MAN vs. AUTHOR

A nine-panel chart titled “CONFLICT IN LITERATURE” presents different types of literary conflict, illustrated with dramatic scenes of men facing nature, society, technology, other men, themselves, reality, God, the absence of God, and the author. The joke is the escalating absurdity of treating increasingly abstract and meta concepts as enemies in a literary-analysis framework, making it useful as a reaction to complicated existential or philosophical problems.

• @afrosidemoon / 25925 2020-04-12