'Environmental Conflicts In Literature\r'

'Conflicts ar a very prominent element in literature. If you were to look up the dictionary definition of conflict, you would find that it is a struggle, controversy, or fight. Conflicts endure take soldieryy forms, and each has its decl are place in literature. Environmental conflicts are certainly one of the more know and appreciated types of conflicts. They are easy to identify, understand, and analyze. An surroundings great mess be described as ones surroundings, so logically, an environmental conflict is a conflict with ones surroundings. Environmental conflicts pit worldly concern against a greater power, and it is unsure what get out happen next.\r\nThroughout [good] literature, a considerable array of environmental conflicts can be found. Let us take a look at Leiningen Versus the Ants, by Carl Stephenson. In this story, environmental conflicts are exceedingly prevalent. In f figure, the accurate story is built upon the act of God that Leiningen faces. A twenty s quare up mile army of ants threatens Leiningens plantation and his life. The ants elicit to be a formidable opponent, so far for a man of such craftsmanship as Leiningen. They represent the power and excitability of spirita perfect example of an environmental conflict.\r\n non all environmental conflicts are huge, apocalyptic, catastrophic events. They can be as frank or commonplace as a tree falling. Such is the case in The Interlopers, by Saki. Saki recognizes the power of character, and makes economic consumption of nearthing so un consequential as a fallen tree to trap Ulrich and Georg infra it, and dramatically alter the course of the entire story. Not and that, but at the end of the story, Saki uses wolves to change the precaution of the story once more, and this time he creates some irony as well.\r\nIn almost all cases, the environment does hold over man in some way or an some other. To Build a Fire, by Jack London is a prime example of this happening to a larg e extent. A man and his blackguard are lost in the state of nature at sub-zero temperatures, and he is not only involved in an environmental conflict, but a struggle to live. Eventually the man dies of hypothermia. Again, this is another instance that illustrates the power that nature has over us. Ironically, (as if to drive the point home) the mans detent survives.\r\nIt is safe to say that environmental conflicts are a truly wonderful and important addition to the literary world. They give the referee a sense of awe toward nature and its power. We cannot predict what nature will do, nor can we deny its supremacy. Because of this, environmental conflicts are ofttimes more captivating and suspenseful than other types, and we find a great deal of enjoyment and entertainment from them.\r\n'