interpersonal conflict in Maleficent

                                                     Interpersonal conflict in maleficent

    Maleficent was a great movie for this project because it has many great examples of interpersonal 

conflict. The movie starts off with a fairy, Maleficent, and a human, Stefan, who eventually becomes 

king, loving each other even though there from different kingdoms that hate each other. One day 

Stefan has the opportunity to become king, all he has to do is kill Maleficent. When Stefan attempts 

to kill Maleficent he finds himself unable to do it because he still has feelings for her. Instead he cuts 

off her wings and brings them to his kingdom to convince everyone that he killed Maleficent, as a 

result he becomes King of his land. When Maleficent wakes up and notices her wings are gone, she 

becomes furious and puts a curse on Aurora, King Stefan’s newborn daughter. Maleficent plan 

backfires because as she gets to know Aurora, she falls in love with her as if she were her own 

daughter. When Aurora is permanently  asleep it is Maleficent's kiss of true love that awakens her. 

Maleficent’s anger eventually drives her to kill King Stefan and Aurora becomes the new queen of the 

Moors kingdom.


    The main conflict in this movie is between Maleficent and King Stefan. They use the aggressive 

system towards each other in an ineffective way. They violently fight with each other and as a result 

King Stefan dies. If they were to use the collaborative system and work together and communicate 

with one another on how they were feeling, then there would not be any consequences. As a result 

King Stefan might still be alive, Aurora would not have been cursed, and Maleficent would have 

never turned evil and everything would have been great. Overall this movie was a great one for 

interpersonal conflict, but if the characters would of handled the conflict in a different way there 

would have been a more positive outcome with less consequences.