Creative Writing: Conflict By Henry Harms ‘In times of conflict, no one is completely innocent’ Conflict is seen by everyone everyday, and it just seems to happen to such undeserving people, but it’s the way in which you react and the decisions that you make, which ultimately decides on whether you will find yourself in trouble or not. In life we find that conflict can sometimes bring out the worst in people, and we see a great example of this in the Quiet American, with both Fowler and Pyle. Fowler, being the narrator of this story continually reminds the reader of his past and the guilt he has after cheating on his wife back home in England. This then sees Fowler and Pyle entering into a world thinking that they are completely innocent, as the world they come from is none like the one they locate to. However, after a naïve girl named Phuong enters the equation, the conflict between both Fowler and Pyle begins to heat up.
Okonkwo and Macbeth are both heavily influenced by other characters, fuelled by the expectations of their societies, and driven to act based on their tragic flaw. The reason behind all the actions Okonkwo takes can be traced back to one person; his father. Okonkwo grew up hating Unoka’s laziness and he “was ruled by one passion- to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved” (Achebe 13). This led him to rule “his household with a heavy hand” (Achebe 13), and treat his family poorly. He is afraid to show affection, as seen with Ezinma and Ikemefuna.
Throughout the piece, we experience Orwell’s internal conflict between the imperialist police force he is working for, and the rude Burmans people he is forced to deal with on a daily basis. Because of his indecisiveness, we are constantly on our toes, wondering which “side” he will choose. Will he succumb to his duty to his country and to the police force, or will he side with his need to be in power and placed socially above the persuasive Burmans? Orwell’s flaky equivocation drives the tone in this piece, adding ambivalence to the reader as well. Orwell draws the audience in
I think this was the case in my workplace, due to naivety and lack of confidence. My deputy manager had very differing styles of work, so this caused a lot of conflict between ourselves, then amongst the team. She was very loud and blunt, to the point of being slightly aggressive and overbearing. I am much quieter, calmer, and more tolerant. Different personalities is a big factor in workplace conflict.
CASE 6: COUNTRYSIDE ENVIORNMENTAL SERVICES The case “Countryside Environmental Services” focuses on the affect an employee’s unpleasant behavior has on the team and organization on the whole. Gwen not being satisfied with her supervisor John, salary structure, family etc. subjects to incivility the very first day of her meeting with a new entrant, Vincent. Despite of such behaviors the company owner and manager John was not successful in managing her. Though John had sympathy for the family pressures she was facing, but her unpleasant behavior was affecting the efficiency of the entire team and the organization.
In a viewing of the production, Miller notes the audience's reaction to what they were seeing: [The audience members]were weeping because the central matrix of this play is ... what most people are up against in their lives.... they were seeing themselves, not because Willy is a salesman, but the situation in which he stood and to which he was reacting, and which was reacting against him, was probably the central situation of contemporary civilization. It is that we are struggling with forces that are far greater than we can handle, with no equipment to make anything mean anything. In seeking to make a drama that is a critique of the "central situation of contemporary society, Miller has constructed a tragic hero that is not Aristotelian, but rather modern in its reach and its implications A common idea presented in literature is the issue of the freedom of the individual in opposition to the controlling pressures of society. Willy Loman, the main character in Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller, epitomizes this type of person; one who looks to his peers and co-salesman as lesser individuals. Not only was he competitive and overbearing, but Willy Loman sought after an ideal that he could never become: the greatest salesman ever.
From the first line in the book, Miller has made Parris out to be a very forceful, powerful man as he shouts ‘Out of here!’ at Tituba as soon as she enters the room. Your first thoughts of Parris are that he is a very angry man but you soon find out that he has a whole different side to him. He is a very materialistic person, his main priority is himself and many of his parishioners think of him as an extremely greedy and selfish man. This is shown in the very first scene as we see Parris standing over his daughter Betty's sick bed. At first readers are made to feel bad for him but then you quickly realise that Parris is just worried about his reputation.
The only way he can demonstrate his feelings is by being angry at the world and mean. He says, “when petitioners came to my desk for information, I snarled at them and felt indescribably happy whenever I managed to make one of them feel miserable” (85). We can see that to the narrator making people feel miserable is a way to get a reaction from them and it is also empowering to have people have such a stronger reaction toward him and the things he does. Throughout the story, we can see that the unnamed narrator of Notes from Underground has trouble communicating with people. We can see this when he invites himself to the party his old school friends were throwing to a person whom he did not even like.
I am using this topic based on a movie called Office Space, and the characters experiences. Peter Gibbons is a computer programmer working for company called Initech. Every day, he and his friends Samir and Michael Bolton, suffer endless indignities and humiliations in their workspace from their boss, Bill Lumbergh. For Peter, stuck in his apartment with paper-thin walls and IKEA furniture, every day is worse than the one before it, so every day is the worst day of his life. Humiliation has a significant impact on the working lives of many people.
He spends an hour or a day looking at it. He feels ashamed and even doesn’t let his wife know. From this fact it can be estimated that Craig’s behavior is a sign of some psychological problem. For sake of Craig’s contribute to the company and for the friendship between Craig and Al, Al should help him overcome the psychology problem. Even though it