ANALYSIS OF A DRAMA ENTITLED “THE PROPOSAL”
By:
ANTON CHEKOV
This explanation deals with structural elements in “THE PROPOSAL”. The structural elements generally consist of:
1. Character and Characterization
There are two kinds of character, namely major character and minor character. Meanwhile, characterization is development of character within a particular work. It represents the qualities of the characters physically, mentally and socially. There are as follows.
a. Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov ; Natalya’s father, a landowner. He is a wise father, a kind man and polite for instance to his neighbor. He is relax and senile. His physical looks like 60 years old.
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. Natalya is a fussy girl. She wants to get everything what she wants. She is in love, egad, she is like a love-sick cat.
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. Ivan is a neighbor of Chubukov. He is 35 years old, a critical age. Ivan is a large and hearty. If he gets nervous, his heart’s palpitating awfully, especially when face with Natalya. He does not have a brave in front of woman.
2. Setting
Setting of a literary work consists of two broader setting. Firstly, setting of time. Secondly, is setting of place.
a. Setting of time: in 1916, happened in evening at about 7p.m.
b. Setting of place
Mostly, setting of place happened in the Chubukov’s country-house in New York exactly at drawing room.
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
It is way the author tells the readers about his story by using narrators. In “The Proposal” using the third person. Narrator is not mentioned directly, only telling the story.
5. Style
a. Grammatical structure
Grammatical structure is informal both in narration and dialogue the point of his style and using the easy word. So it is easy to get understanding. It is also using standard grammatical structure. The dialogue and narration is using present tense
b. Sentence construction
The sentence construction in “the proposal” tends to be long utterance construction but majority in this dialogue using short exclamation utterance. The author usually uses language sentence construction in narration, when he describes some detailed information.
c. Diction
The choice of words are easy to understand. Mostly used as dialogues form.
d. 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 author does not state the theme explicitly. He just gives some clues, so the readers have to comprehend and predict through the whole of story to get the message.
The theme is couple who love each other by fighting.
Conclusion
1. Kind of Drama
The kind of drama can be related to “man versus society”. This reason is based on the interaction among of the some persons and the topic when they communicate is about the life problem, it is about a marriage. Moreover in this drama there is no natural event.
2. Message
The message of this story is the differences of us will be something that good and nice in the end. So we must accept the differences between us and then respect each other.
By:
Laili Agustina
A 320080109
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