ABSTRACT
As with the previous topic ‘passions and repressions’, the ‘social and political conflict’ topic is centred on the idea of oppositions in story and plot. To begin with it is important therefore to define what is meant by the term ‘social and political conflict’. There is likely to be some overlap with the themes in ‘passions and repressions’. However, that topic emphasizes personal expressions of desire and identity while this area is more explicitly concerned with organized groups in political and social contexts. The different areas of conflict at family, community, national and state level are likely to be interlinked.
