Question

What is the difference between the climax and the conflict in a story?

Answer 1

What are your thoughts so far on this?

Answer 2

So far they seem pretty similar to me, I just am having trouble telling them apart because I think that the conflict is the climax but idk.

Answer 3

They are very related ideas, I agree.

The conflict is basically the type of struggle between the characters, or the characters vs the environment (eg: an earthquake happens to cause death and injury).

Here's a list of all types of conflict
https://www.nownovel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/6-types-of-story-conflict-768x1284.png

That link says
* Person vs person
* Person vs nature (or environment)
* Person vs self
* Person vs technology
* Person vs society (so it's a form of person vs person)
* Person vs supernatural (eg: ghosts or haunted house maybe)

The climax of a story is where the conflict reaches its peak intensity. This is where the emotions are at the highest so to speak. So if you had a story about a two characters building up a boxing match for instance, then the match itself would be the climax.

Answer 4

Thanks guys for your help, and btw jim I noticed you are an og on this site.

Answer 5

No problem, and yeah it's been a while