For my own knowledge I researched about the summary of The Two Gentlemen of Verona to get an overview of what the play is about. In addition, I researched the characters to have an understanding of who my character, Speed has a relationship with.
Characters:
- Speed – Valentine's clownish servant. He's quick-witted and has a habit of bagging on other characters in a way that reveals how foolish people can be.
- Valentine – A young gentleman from Verona that is Proteus’ BFF and the boyfriend of Silvia.
- Silvia – The daughter of the Duke of Milan and Valentine’s girlfriend. She is very bold and incredibly loyal.
Speed finds a third glove that belongs to Silvia – the girl who
Valentine has fallen in love with. Valentine is teased by Speed about his crush
and says that Valentine's been moping around like a lovesick puppy: sighing, singing
love songs, refusing to eat, and crying like a girl. Then Speed carries on insulting
Valentine and Silvia by implying that Silvia is ugly but Valentine thinks she's
beautiful. Silvia enters and Valentine showers her with compliments. Valentine
is so blinded by her beauty and his love for her that he doesn’t realise Silvia
refers to Valentine as her "servant" and treats him like one. Later,
we find out that Silvia asked Valentine to write a love letter to an unnamed “friend”
of Silvia’s however, Valentine doesn’t know that Silvia wants him to write it
for her. After she reads it she shoves
it back at Valentine and tells him to try again but this time, the letter
should be more passionate. Valentine is left confused after Silvia leaves him
with the letter in his hand until Speed explains to him why Silvia is upset.
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