Conflict Essay, Lost Episode 7

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In the TV series Lost, director Jack Bender helps to develop the character of Charlie Pace as he uses Pace’s heroin addiction to create both an internal and external conflict within himself and those around him. As he is introduced into the show as one of the main characters, the audience is automatically drawn to have a connection with him therefore creating a conflict such as heroin addiction will help further develop his character as well as the narrative as they are able to find depth within the character himself. In season one, episode seven titled ‘The Moth’, Pace’s conflict of heroin addiction is defined with a series of flashbacks, even beginning the episode with one as Pace confesses his sins in a church. He then continues to develop, managing to deflate his internal (and now external) conflict until finally, Pace is able to resemble a fully developed moth. The director uses the film technique ‘flashback’ commendably to show us Charlie’s life before the plane crash. This is an important element to understand Charlie’s conflict and how this is affecting him in this episode. Charlie has had a tough time before the crash. He was a part of a band (DriveSHAFT) with his older brother Liam Pace. In the first flashback we are taken to a Church in Manchester, where Charlie is confessing his sins in a confession booth. Charlie tells the father that he will not commit these sins again; ironically his brother is waiting for him at the church to tell him about their new recording contract. Charlie doesn’t want to sign the record contract because he has uncertainties about the sex and drugs the band participates in. But of course Liam talks Charlie into signing and that he can pull the plug when Charlie says so. This is around the time where Charlie’s conflict begins and develops into an internal conflict. The next flashback we are taken to shows Charlie

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