Drama Assignment

Drama Assignment
The Lesson Drama Analysis
By: Ratna Adi Tejaningrum
A 320 080 148
Class G

The Character of The Lesson:
1. The professor (male), he is fifty and sixty years old.
2. The girl pupil (female), she is eighteen years old.
3. The maid(female), she is forty-five and fifty years old.

The characterizations in ‘The Lesson’:
1. The Professor (male) who is 50 to 60 years old, he is a smart or an intelligent people, selfish, cruel (because he has heart to kill his student), and he has a psychology problem.
2. The Pupil (female), she has a big spirit and strong motivation to study, and then she is a polite person, discipline, confident of herself, but she has not strong body.
3. The Maid (female), she is very loyal to her boss (Professor), innocent person, brave, strong, and she has a psychology problem like a professor (her boss).

Plot:
The drama uses the traditional plot structure so there are four sequential levels they are:
 Exposition
It contains the introduction of the character and characterization, the problem, and also situation. In this sequential level the writer shows the purpose what are the pupil’s purpose by seeing the professor in his house.
 Complication
Complication involves the tension of conflicts. The part of complication is starting from when professor was give the lesson until he lost his control because he cannot control himself.
 Climax
The climax happen when the complication on the highest tension. In The Lesson the climax is when the professor lost his control and then he killed the pupil. And finally he realized that he was killing his pupil.
 Resolution
Resolution is the end of the story. In this case the part of resolution is after professor killed the pupil then the maid entered his room, then they were hide the pupil, and actually the pupil that had killed by the professor are forty young students.

Setting of Place and Time:
Place: the office or house of the professor (in the dining room), in side of the maid house, at an endless stream of words.
Time: in the morning when summer season on June 1950.

Language Style:
In The Lesson drama comedy, the writer uses a simple or short and polite language, so it makes easy to understand for the readers.

Point of view:
The lesson (a drama comic) presents the story in third-person point of view. The author points to all character and positioning them as third person, so he knows the entire of story.

Theme:
This story has many values that builder the main idea of the story. There are comedy, horror, education, and psychological. So, we can get many knowledge by reading this drama comedy.

Conclusion:
The Lesson is included of man and society drama, because it tells about the relation between 'man versus society' (the relationship of the professor and the pupil, the pupil and the maid, and the professor and the maid).