Indy Antana: April 2011

NAME : FIBRIAN ANINDYAWATI
NIM : A.320080241
CLASS : F

The Analysis of A Comic Drama Entitled The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco

1. The Character
a. The Professor : the age of the professor is between fifty to sixty years old, who tutors individual pupils for their “total doctorate” examinations. During a session with a young female student, he is meek at first. He becomes more intense and authoritarian as the lesson advances. Eventually, he becomes irrationally, even absurdly, angry; disallowing any interruptions of his barrage on philology, the old man grows increasingly excited. First, he attacks the student using language as a tool of dominance, power, deception, and, in the end, violent cruelty. Finally, he loses all his control and at the end he kill his pupil.
b. The Young Pupil : the age is 18 years old. She is a diligent student who wants to learn with the professor to pass the doctoral exams she plans to write in three weeks.
c. The Maid : a woman aged 45 to 50 years old. She always worrying about the Professor's health.

2. Plot Summary
The lesson tells about a young student who want to learn to pass the doctoral exam in three weeks. This student can understand most of the explanation of the professor at first, but because his pupil is stubborn, the professor grows more and more angry with the Pupil's ignorance and the Pupil becomes more and more quiet and meek. At the climax of the play, the Pupil is murdered by the Professor, after a long bout of non sequiturs (which are frequently used in Ionesco's plays). The play ends as a new Pupil is greeted by the Maid.

3. Setting
The Lesson is set entirely in the Professor’s apartment office, which is also a dining room, with a provincial buffet standing on the right. At center stage is a table that doubles as a desk. The window, upstage, is not very large, and through it the roofs of a small town can be seen in the distance. When the curtain rises, the stage is empty.

4. The Theme and The Issue
The theme and the issue of the comic drama entitled the lesson is about the control of emotion. The professor is meek at first but he becomes irrationally, even absurdly, and angry because of his student.

5. The Language style
The Professor : He is meek at first, but he become more angry at the end.
The Pupil : She most interrupts the explanation of the professor, so make the professor angry.
The Maid : She is very respect with the professor.

6. The Conclusion
From the analysis above we can conclude that this drama is man vs. society.

Bosen dengan style hijab yang itu - itu mulu??
Pengen modis tapi dengan gaya berjilbab yang simple?

Coba style hijab Dian Pelangi, sederhana tapi tetep modis ^^

Step 1 : Yang dibutuhkan adalah barang - barang seperti jilbab paris, inner (bisa inner renda, inner motif, inner arab, atau headress) terserah kalian lebih nyaman pake yang mana, tapi kalo pada contoh yang di pake Dian Pelangi yang dipakai adalah inner renda ^^. Jangan lupa, kalian juga butuh bros atau jarum pentul juga.. :)