Drama assignment

Name: Maftukhatin Ni’mah

NIM  :A320 080 208

Class :F

TUGAS DRAMA

The Lesson: By Eugene Ionesco

The setting of this story mostly is lesson situation between the professor and his pupil.

·                 The characters

-       Professor, The Professor is associated as the cleverest and the highest. He is 50 to 60 years old. He is an aggressive person, excessively polite, very timid, his voice deadened by his timidity.

-       The young pupil aged 18. She is a rich person, and fool person but she is attractive.  

-       The Maid, aged 45 to 50. She is stout, patient, red faced. She is always pay attention to the professor.

·                 Synopsis

The young pupil is eager to learn and she dominates the professor with her confidence and youth, but as the story develops.  Even more she is suffering from the professor’s voice and explanation, such as toothache, earache, headache and eyes ache. The maid, Marie, always warns the professor about his “health” and calamity that might happen. Unfortunately the professor, instead of listening to his maid, ignores her every time she warns him. The maid warns him when the professor explains about philology, and again, the professor ignores her. The maid also warns the professor again when he starts asking about ‘knife’ in different languages, but the maid is already tired to warn him. In the end of the play, the professor kills the pupil with an imaginative knife and with the help of his maid he could get rid of her corpse and then the stage is set again with another young pupil who is ready for the lesson. And it is fortieth times his killed.         

·                 The moral value of the story

   Reminds us to control our emotion when we are in difficult situations and stay calm, not to underestimate to other people, and be open-minded person.

·                 The kind of the story

This story is classified as “man vs. society”, because the conflict arises between professor and his pupil.