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Victoria Aveyard's The Red Queen

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Like in all great stories, the climax is one of the best parts in the story. The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, is no exception to this with its great fantasy action and plot. The main conflict is Man vs Man, as Mare joins the “Scarlet Guard in hopes of”(pg 115) helping “her family”(pg 17) as she is a Red, “the lower class slaves to the Silvers” (pg 4), against the Silvers, “the ruling class”(pg 5). Although Man vs Man is the main conflict, Man vs Himself is the underlying conflict as Mare tries to identify “who she can trust” (pg 186) during her time at the “summer castle” (pg 59). The climax of the story is when the ball is bombed by the Scarlet Guard to try and stop the war with the neighboring country in turn, getting rid of the Conscription,

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