The Proposal by Anton Chekhov

Name: Setyo Wati

NIM : A320080325
Class: G

The Proposal by Anton Chekhov

1.      CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERIZATION

a.    Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov ; Natalya’s father, a landowner. He is a wise father.

b.    Natalya Stepanova; Chubukov’s daughter, twenty five years old. She is the only  daughter of a widower. She is strong woman and   not feminine.

c.    Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov, a neighbour of Chubukov. A large and suspicious landowner. But he is a talk active person. He is not open minded person.

2.      SCENERY [the setting place and time]

Setting; in the Chubukov’s country-house in New York

Time; in 1916

3.      PLOT

a.      Exposition

There is a family with consist of a father and her daughter. The father has named Chubukov and her daughter, Natalya Stepanova. And there is a Chubukov’s friend who named Lomov. Here, Lomov had feeling with Chubukov’s daughter so Lomov want to propose Chubukov’s daughter to be his wife in the future. And Natalya suspects as much.

b.      Complication

Describe  the odd courtship of Lomov, who seeks a marriage with his neighbor’s daughter. But before this Lomov want to propose her firstly. He came to Natalya’s home with wearing tidy clothes in which wearing a dress-jacket and white gloves in order seem look good appearance for Natalya sight. Hence, Natalya doesn’t understand what Lomov’s want actually. Before said his purpose to Natalya, they speak each   other, they discuss about something [Oxen Meadows]. But it is not for a long time, their discussion lead to fight by speaking [disagree each other]

c.       Climax

The man and the woman want to marry but unpredictable they fight before Lomov can make his proposal. Fighting while proposes, and fight after she agrees to marry his. They tend toward a fight every time they speak to one another. And while her father comes at first, he decides that the two just like the fight with each other.

d.      Resolution

Eventually, her father makes decision in order they get married soon. The father calls that this is the last fight the “Launching of marital bliss” thought it is doubtful that this couple can fight all the time.

4.      POINT OF VIEW

In this play in one-act, The Proposal presents this story using third person narrator. The author points all character and positioning them as third person.

5.      STYLE

a.       Based on the narration and dialogues of this play, It is using standard grammatical structure. The dialogue and narration is using present tense.

b.      The sentence construction of the narration and the dialogue is using long utterance construction. But majority in this dialogue using short exclamation utterance.

For examples; Shut up!, Boy!

c.       In this dialogue, there is figurative language. It is Synecdoche. We can find in the word “My Heart”. “My Heart” here indicates to woman who loved very much.

6.      THEME

The theme of this play is Two people [a couple] who love each other by fighting.

CONCLUSION

          After reading and understanding this play, I will conclude that it is belongs to Mans vs society because this play appears the interaction among of the some persons. And the topic when they communicate is about the life problem, it is about a marriage.

“The Death of Salesman”

Name: Setyo Wati
NIM: A320080325
Class: G

“The Death of Salesman”

1.    CHARACTERS

a.      Major  characters

·  Willy Loman ; a traveling salesman who believes in the promises of American Dream. He is 61 years old. He is a poor and little salesman.

·  Linda Loman; Willy’s wife. She loves her husband very much.

·   Biff Loman;  the oldest  son of Willy Loman. He was a star football player in high school. But now he has not a certain job, he has been moving from one job to another. Willy’s hopes akre centered on Biff.

·   Happy Loman ; the younger s on of Willy. He works in a department store.

b. Minor Characters

·  Charley ; Loman’s friend. He is sincere and hard worker.

·   Bernard ; Charley’s son who was a childhood friend of Biff. He is successful lawyer now.

·   Ben ; Willy’s dead brother. He appears only in Willy’s dreams or illusions.

·   Howard Wagner  ; the son of the former  owner in the Wagner Company.

·   Miss Frances ; the woman in Boston who Willy has an affair.

·   Letta and miss. Farsythe; the two women that Happy picks up in the restaurant.

2.    CHARACTERIZATION

a.  Willy ; he is arrogant per son, a person who has high self-confidence, talk active. And he is a dreamer but he has rigid spirit and hard worker.

b. Linda ; a kind housewife because she want to accept the situation in her family. She is rigid person.

c.  Biff ; a nice son for his family, but he doesn’t evaluate himself very high, he is a hard worker too.

d. Happy ; Happy like Linda, really normally. He has a normal middle class life with regular world. He is very royal with his parents.

3.    SCENERY  [The Setting place and time]

Place ; most of the play is set in the Loman’s house in New York.

Time ; the times fluctuate between the year in 1928 and 1942.

4.    PLOT

a.       Exposition

There is a family which has a head of household named Willy Loman. Willy has the problem is being able to separate illusion from reality. Willy has been a travelling salesman for the Wagner Company for 34 years. He likes to think of himself as being vital to New England territory and he believes in the false promises of the American Dream.

b.      Complication

Most of Willy’s time live in a dream world in which Willy believes that he will be successful person, belongs to his son. Willy teaches his son that he will get success if he has a good looking and not to work hard. And Willy believes that Biff can do it.

c.       Climax

It  occurs when Biff forces the truth about himself and Willy, his father. In other words, Biff makes his father see that both he and Willy are failures. Biff makes his father realize the emptiness of their lives and Willy can’t accept this reality.

d.      Resolution

It is a tragic ending in which Willy commits suicide in order to get financially provide for his family, especially for Biff’s future with the receipt of Willy’s twenty thousand dollar insurance policy.

5. POINT OF VIEW

In this play, The Death of Salesman presents this story using third person narrator. The author points all character and positioning them as third person.

6. STYLE

a.    Based on the narration and dialogues of this play,  it is using standard grammatical structure. The dialogue and narration is using present tense and past tense..

b.    The sentence construction of the narration and the dialogue is using long sentence construction. It uses subject, verb, object and modifier too. There is also find some clause, phrase etc.

c.         In this story, there is figurative language. It is irony in the death of salesman. There are several examples of irony in Death of a Salesman.

For example, when Willy goes in intending to get a better job, he actually ends up losing his job. Happy’s name is ironic.

 It is also ironic how Bernard ends up being much more successful than Willy or his sons, when Willy had been so certain all it took to be successful was to be liked.

Another example of irony is that Willy will buy stockings for his women in other cities, but can’t afford them for even his own wife.

 And the others ironic  that by the time the house was paid for there was no one to live in.

7. Theme

The great theme of this story is The falsity of the American Dream.

In this theme has meaning that Willy Loman represent  the primary target of this dream. So it led Loman to high dreamer in which he hopes to be successful person. Even it is false dreams.

CONCLUSION

            After reading and understanding this play or the story, I will conclude that it is belongs to Mans vs society because this story appears the activity that relate with the other person or society. And in this story also describe the condition of the family that often we get in the common society

‘The Lesson”

Name: Setyo Wati
NIM: A320080325
Class: G

“Structural Analysis of ‘The Lesson”

·        Characters and characterization

Characters:

v  the professor (aged 50 to 60)

v  the young pupil (aged 18)

v  the maid (aged 45 to 50)

Characterization:

v  The professor (aged 50 to 60): he is polite, very timid, his voice deadened by his timidity, very proper, very much the teacher. Actually he is kind but sadist because he has murdered his pupil.

v  The young pupil (aged 18): she is a cheerful and well-brought-up girl, polite, lively, gay, dynamic; a fresh smile is on her lips, but she is a slow learner.

v  The maid (aged 45 to 50): she is stout, red-faced, docile and she like interfering with what the professor does.

·        Plot: progressive plot (beginning with the young pupil enters the professor’s house until she is murdered by the professor.)

·        Setting (time): one morning in June 1950

·        Setting (place): the professor’s house (dining room)

·        Climax: the professor kills his pupil when the pupil comes in his home.

·        Correlation: between man and society