ASSIGNMENT DRAMA THE LESSON

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A. The Character and Characterization

There are 3 characters in this comic drama:

1.  The Professor aged 50 to 60
The professor, between fifty and sixty years old, who tutors individual pupils for their “total doctorate” examinations.

2.  The young pupil, aged 18
The Pupil (Amy Loughton) was taking over-acting to new heights and was duly concerned.

3.  The Maid, aged 45 to 50
 The Maid (Julia Munrow) is very faithful alright to accompany the professor, hyperbolic character, and psychopath.

B. Theme

This story have many aspect that builder the main idea of the story. There are comedy, horror, education, and psychological. This drama tells about the professor that maniacs to always teach pupils and don’t let them go.

C. Setting place and time.
·      Setting: in the professor’s house (in dining room) and inside the house the maids, silhouetted in a green light, deliver the lesson in an endless stream of words, rendered at speed above the sound of tearing paper.
·      Time: morning.

D. Plot the story
The play takes place in the office and dining room of a small French flat. The Professor, an elderly man of about 50 to 60, is expecting a new Pupil (aged 18). The third character is the Professor's Maid, a stout, red-faced woman of about 40 to 50, who is always worrying about the Professor's health. As the lesson progresses, the Professor grows more and more angry with (what he perceives as) 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.

E. Summary
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.


F. Conclusion
The conclusion of comic drama is representing the relationship between man versus society. Because this comic drama tells relationship between people, they are the relation between the professor, the young pupil, and the maid. The professor become irrational, arrogant, and authoritative since his pupil gains nothing from her lesson. Finally, the professor murdered his pupil which helped by his maid.