Internal and external conflict

Most often, literary works have both internal conflict (individual v. self) and external conflict (individual v. individual, society, nature, or technology).Additionally, one can often find that a character's internal conflict is linked to an external one. Choose a story in which both an internal and external conflict are evident. How does the external conflict illuminate the internal one? What meaningful parallels or incongruencies do you observe when comparing the two, and what is the significance within the context of the story?

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