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.