Read the passage from "By the Waters of Babylon."Nevertheless, it was strange. There was a washing-place but no water"perhaps th
e gods washed in air. There was a cooking-place but no wood, and though there was a machine to cook food, there was no place to put fire in it. Nor were there candles or lamps"there were things that looked like lamps but they had neither oil nor wick. All these things were magic, but I touched them and lived"the magic had gone out of them. Let me tell one thing to show. In the washing-place, a thing said "Hot" but it was not hot to the touch"another thing said "Cold" but it was not cold. This must have been a strong magic but the magic was gone. I do not understand"they had ways"I wish that I knew.Which conflict does the narrator face in this passage?character vs. character, because his father's words cause him to question his actionscharacter vs. nature, because he must battle the elements of weathercharacter vs. self, because he is struggling to understand how the gods livedcharacter vs. society, because he must battle against the teachings of the gods
Answer: character vs. self, because he is struggling to understand how the gods lived.
Explanation: in literature, a conflict is a struggle between opposite forces, it is often between a character (usually the main character or a very important one) and himself (internal conflict), nature, society or another character (external conflict). In the given excerpt from "By the Waters of Babylon" we can see an example of a character vs. self conflict, because the speaker doesn't understand how the gods lived, and this causes him to struggle.
