Name : Liza Widayanti
Nim : A320080187
THE LESSON
Characters :
1. Professor :
aged 50 to 60, little old man with a little white beard, excessively polite, very timid, very proper, egoist, and temperament.
2. Pupil :
aged 18, young, well-brought-up girl, polite, lively, gay, dynamic, vaguely and paralyzed.
3. Maid :
aged 45 to 50, red faced, loyal, and care.
Setting :
1. Place : the office of the old professor
2. Time : morning
Plot :
1. Introduction :
the drama begins with a maid who opens the door of the office of the old professor to a young lady as a pupil. The pupil waits the professor to teach her about some lesson.
2. Complication :
the pupil begins learn about arithmetic. She can add very well, but she cannot subtract. Her problem on subtraction makes the professor be angry.
3. Climax :
suddenly the pupil has toothache. But, the professor never gives attention to her. The professor always continues his explanation. The pupil cannot say the lesson well. But the professor forces her to give attention and speak well. Until the last lesson, professor explains about knife. He brings the knife and the accident happened without he knows what he did to the pupil. The professor kills the pupil by his knife.
4. Resolution :
the professor calls the maid to help. The professor gets panics because the pupil was dead. He asks suggestion from his maid to overcome the problem. The maid gives suggestion to don’t worry on the accident. Then, they go out. The end of it the maid open the door to other pupil.
Point of view : viewer/ audience
Style :
1. Grammatical structure :
standard but there are some dialogue that ungrammatically.
2. Sentence construction :
long and short sentence. There are simple, compounds, compound- complex sentence, and sometime there is one word on one sentence in the dialogue.
3. Diction :
the vocabularies that are used in the drama have many varieties.
Theme : education
conclusion : man vs society
