Discuss how conflict is built up to create dramatic tension between helen and elsa in the road to mecca?

The main conflicts in the road to mecca is revolved around religions.

Marius and Elsa both want to help Helen from her troubles

In that story, Elsa is described as a good for nothing woman in a religious society ( she got an abortion and having affair with married man). meanwhile, marius is a Conservative pastor. they both have a really different principles that contradict each other and shoving down their point of views to Helen, without realizing that they both have been neglecting Helen's feeling

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.