drama

WACHYU TINARAH
A320080306
Class
“THE LESSON”


Character&Characterization
• The Professor (aged 50-60) (male)
Have psychology problem, smart, ambitious, easy to loss control, murderer.
• The Young pupil (aged 18) (female)
A diligent student, have high spirit, discipline, confidence, weak (strength of body).
• The Maid “Marie” (45-50) (female)
Strong, brave, carefully, a stout, red-faced woman, who is always worrying about the Professor's health.
Setting
• Time
In the morning when summer season.

• Place
The Lesson is set entirely in the Professor’s apartment office, which is also a dining room, with a provincial buffet standing on the right. At center stage is a table that doubles as a desk. The window, upstage, is not very large, and through it the roofs of a small town can be seen in the distance.

Plot
The drama uses traditional plot structure. In this plot, there are four sequential levels; exposition-complication-climax or turning point-resolution.
• Exposition
It presents the introduction of the character and characterization, the problem, and also situation. In this case the part of exposition is start from first story until pupil explains her purpose or willing to Professor.
• Complication
Complication involves the tension of conflicts. In this case the part of complication is start from the lesson progresses; the Professor grows more and angrier with (what he perceives as) the Pupil's ignorance.
• Climax
Climax is the highest tension of complication and it happened when the complication became the highest tension. At the climax of the play, the Pupil is murdered by the Professor.
Resolution
Resolution is the outcome of the story ends and it’s the end the story’s problem. In this case the part of resolution is when the maid come and explains the professor’s psychology problem. The play ends as a new Pupil is greeted by the Maid.
Theme
This story has many aspects that builder the main idea of the story. There are comedy, horror, education, and psychological. This drama tells about the professor that maniacs to always teach pupils and don’t let them go.