Armand Duval's Conflict in Alexandre Dumas Jr's The Lady of The Camellias

This thesis tries to analyze a novel written by Alexandre Dumas Jr entitled The Lady of the Camellias. The purpose of this thesis is to know Armand Duval’s conflict seen through his external conflict and the way Armand Duval solves the conflict. This study uses New Criticism theory that focused on the conflict of Armand Duval. The method that is used in this study is a descriptive method. It uses library based study to collect books, journal, and internet sources related to this analysis. There are two external conflicts that Armand Duval faces in this novel, conflict with Marguerite and conflict with his father. One of Armand’s conflicts with Marguerite is Armand Duval is doubted with Marguerite’s feeling. The second is Armand’s conflicts with his father. His father disagreed about his son’s relationship. Armand Duval’s solution with his conflicts with Marguerite about his doubt of Marguerite’s feeling is talking with Prudence and Prudence said that Armand is charming for her and Marguerite to want to know more about Armand. Armand Duval’s solution to solve his conflict with his father is trying to make his father sure about Marguerite and visit his father and ask about his father reflection about Marguerite.