Answer:
The main conflict was between Venus and Psyche, as Psyche attempted to prove her love to Cupid by completing a series of impossible tasks. The conflict sprouted from Venus’ jealousy from Psyche’s beauty, which men praised more than hers. The conflict was resolved by Venus forgiving Psyche, and allowing her to stay with Cupid. “This homage to the exaltation of a mortal gave great offense to the real Venus. Shaking her ambrosial locks with indignation, she exclaimed “... But she shall not so quietly usurp my honors. I will give her cause to repent of so unlawful a beauty.""
Type of Conflict:
Man vs. Man
“She points out Psyche to him and says, ‘My dear son, punish that contumacious beauty; give your mother a revenge as sweet as her injuries are great; infuse into the bosom of that haughty girl a passion for some low, mean, unworthy being, so that she may reap a mortification as great as her present exultation and triumph.’”
“Venus received her with angry countenance. ‘Most undutiful and faithless of servants,’ said she, ‘do you at last remember that you really have a mistress? Or have you rather come to see your sick husband, yet laid up of the wound given him by his loving wife? You are so ill favored and disagreeable that the only way you can merit your lover must be by dint of industry and diligence. I will make trial of your housewifery."’”
Each example of dialogue supports the conflict of Venus’ jealousy and her attempt to make Psyche pay for the praise she received for her famed beauty. The first line of dialogue describes Venus when she summons her son, Cupid, to punish her by making Psyche fall in love with a lowly creature, while the second line of dialogue shows Venus’ anger towards Psyche by making her complete a series of tasks in servitude to Venus, to prove Psyche’s love for Cupid.
Two examples of rising action events include when Venus sent Cupid to curse Psyche, and when Psyche’s sisters visited, filling Psyche’s mind with suspicions about her husband.