ETTYK DESIANA A320080177 CLASS E |
A COMIC DRAMA: THE LESSON
1. CHARACTER AND CHARACTERIZATION
Major:
ü The professor male age 50 to 60
v Physical qualities : little old man with a little white beard, wear pince-nez, a black skull cap, a long black school master’s coat, trouser and black shoes, detachable white collar, a black tie
v Mental qualities : educated, Mr. perfect, coward
v Social qualities : argumentative, , nonchalant, excessively polite
v Moral qualities : egoist, respectful, timid, , temperament
ü The young pupil female aged 18
v Physical qualities : Young little, wearing a gray student’s smock, small white collar, carries’ satchel under her arm
v Mental qualities : endeavor, defensiveness, not rebellious, coward
v Social qualities :friendly
v Moral qualities : respectful,
Minor:
ü The maid female age 4 5 to 50
v Physical qualities : red faced, wear a peasant woman’s cap
v Mental qualities :bold, , wise
v Social qualities :friendly,
v Moral qualities :patient,
2. PLOT:
l Exposition:
The drama begins with the narrator that tells about the office the old professor, which also serve as a dinning room, to the door opens onto the apartment stairs. There is the young pupil coming in the professor’s apartment to lesson with professor and the professor’s maid opened the door to young people and the maid advised the professor. But in the learning activated the professor giving material that difficult to pupil and the pupil only defenselessly, and the maid giving suggestion to professor but he don’t care with his maid, moreover he is chase away her, and the professor still giving difficult learn.
l Complication:
In the middle of lesson and the professor giving material about phoneme, unfortunately the pupil gets a toothache, and she is interrupting the professor to stopping the lesson because the student does not comfort with her toothache, but the professor doesn’t care with her and still continue to learning, but the maid always interrupt the teaching method the professor.
l Climax:
When the maid giving recommend to ending the lesson, because the maid know the pupil does not concern with her lesson, but the professor still continued the lesson and make the maid be angry, so professor makes a gesture as though protest and he drawer where he finds a big knife and brandishes the knife under the pupil’ s eyes. So the student said knife, knife, and knife to lesson about pronunciation.The pupil is very angry with attitude the professor and she breaks his windows by knife, unfortunately the professor striking the pupil with very spectacular blow of the knife, and then he strikes her dead with second slash of the knife until the pupil really dead.
l Resolution:
The professor then becoming conscious if he was killing the pupil, he was afraid and calling the maid, the maid stern expression because sees the corpse. And finally they are going to bury her along with thirty –nine other with order forty coffins. And the professor promise if he does not it again. And the professor still teaching the other pupil with changes his character.
3. SETTING:
Setting of place
l Deals with WHERE the story takes place
1. Professor’s apartment
2. Dinning room
3. Living room
4. Course room
l Frequently explicit, occasionally implicit
l Europe
l Paris
l France
Setting of Time
l Deals with WHEN the story takes place
1. morning
l Sometimes explicit and occasionally implicit
1. Summer
2. June,1950
4. POINT OF VIEW
Non-participant
l Narrator does not introduce as a character, because the narrator just presenter of the professor, pupil, and maid
5. STYLE
l Grammatical Structure (in Narration and Dialogues) Standard
l Sentence Construction (in Narration is long sentences and Dialogues is short sentences just conversation )
l Diction
l Special Expression: gasping for breath, and stammer
l Dialect: like said “ yes”
6. The kind of the story
l This story is classified as “man vs. society”, because the conflict arises between professor and his pupil.
