Proteus now has to leave his beloved Julia and start a new life in Milan. When he gets there he instantly falls in love with the Dukes daughter which who Valentine is now in love with.
In every play some type of conflict occurs. There are a few conflicts that happen during this play. Valentine and Proteus are friends that live in Verona and Valentine is making his decision to leave Verona and go to Milan to explore the world more and he wants Proteus to travel with him but Proteus chooses to stay because he is in love with Julia. Valentine doesn’t approve his friend’s decision and tells him that being in love will make him a fool. Valentine feels like he honors friendship over love and feels like Proteus chose love over friendship so that caused a conflict between Valentine and Proteus which is an external type of conflict. After Valentine goes on his journey, Antonio and Panthino discusses what Proteus future holds. They decide to send him to the Dukes court in Milan. When Antonio finds Proteus to tell him the good news he catches him reading a letter which is from Julia, but Proteus lies to …show more content…
Right now Proteus is overwhelmed about this situation and sobs to himself that he wasn’t brave enough to show his father Julia’s letter and is heartbroken because he has to leave his beloved Julia. This conflict is an internal conflict because he is upset with himself for being afraid and not truthful about the letter from Julia and maybe if he would have been brave enough and truthful there could have been a possibility that his father might have let him stayed. When Proteus gets ready to leave, he and Julia exchange rings and promises to love each other. Meanwhile as Proteus gets ready to leave his beloved, Valentine falls in love with Silvia the Duke’s daughter. The Duke realizes that he will be expecting Proteus so he announces it to the people that are in the court that he will be coming to his court soon. When Proteus arrives Valentine quickly introduces him to his beloved. After he does that he admits that he has fallen in love despite of him criticizing Proteus for being in love. Valentine still thinks him and Proteus are still close pals so he decides to tell him