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Makalah of Drama
Makalah of Drama
Makalah of Drama
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Drama / theater is one of the most popular literature until now. Even in
this era there has been a very rapid development in the field of theater.
Based on the above review, the authors make this paper to help readers
who want to pursue the world of drama. In addition to understanding and
elements of drama, this paper also contains notes about the benefits of drama
and also comes with guidance on how to act well.
1) What is drama?
C. Purpose
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CHAPTER II
DISCUSSION
perfomed on stage. Although plays exist which were mainly written for a
texts. One distinguishes between the primary text is the main body of the
play spoken by the characters, and secondary texts is all the texts
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Depending on whether one reads a play or watches it on stage, one
what the characters look like, how they act and react in certain situations,
how they speak, what sort of setting forms the background to a scene,
etc. However, one also must make a cognitive effort to imagine all these
features and interpret them for oneself. Stage performances, on the other
other words: at the theatre one is presented with a version of the play
designers, make-up artists and all the other members of theatre staff, who
lighting stage props. While reading is limited to the visual perception and
idea that plays are first and foremost written for the stage.
2. Information Flow
in the story-world (except for narrator figures in the epic theatre and other
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mediators) the audience has to gain information directly from what can be
derives from their clumsy efforts to get together – usually they like
each other, but each is unsure that the other likes them back, and their
doesn’t make any sense and you have to laugh. Farces usually use an
situational comedy, and are usually thick with plot twists, hidden
the artificial and sophisticated of the higher social classes under closer
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cynicism.Comedy of Humours Drama, in this type of drama
a. Senecan Tragedy
staged but they became a model for english playwrights entailing the
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Malta, Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and Thomas Kyd’s The
(the higher they are, the lower they fall). Apart from dealing with
tragic hero for an anti-hero, who does not display the dignity and
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chorus and verse e.g., T.S.Eliot’s The Murder in the
Cathedral(1935).
c. Tragicomedy
tragedy and comedy. Thus, characters of both high and low social
tragedy in one plot and comedy in the other are also occasionally
powerfull speech.
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The topic and rhetoric is reminiscent of Hamlet’s philosophical
of some kind. This play ends with the death of central character but also
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b. Comedies – this kind of play involves humour and often confusion,
disguise, mistaken indentity etc. Unlike our modern idea of comedy, some
of shakespear’s comedies can be quite “dark” but the main thing is that
last plays), and often involve magical worlds and happenings, mysterious
number of his plays, however, do not fit easily into these categories. There
are plays that fall somewhere between tragedy and comedy and contain
dark, unsetting elements but which end ‘happily’ in so far as no one dies.
2. Setting.
place, it may provide particular information about placement and timing. Setting
location, weather, immediate surroundings and timing, are all different aspects of
setting.
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There are two main types of setting :
1. Backdrop Setting.
This setting emerges when its not important of story, and could happen in
any setting. For instance, Winnie the- Pooh could take place in any type of
setting.
2. Integral Setting.
It is when the place and time influences the theme, character, and action of
character to a particular setting , the writers defines the character. The Tail of
Function of Setting.
antagonist, post a conflict that characters need to resolve, or shed light upon
Setting can establish the mood or atmosphere of a scene or story, and develop
the plot into a more realistic form, resulting in more convincing characters.
Setting also help the audience relate themselves to the characters in a story.
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3.Theme
The theme of a play refers to its central idea. It can either be clearly
stated through dialog or action, or can be inferred after watching the entire
performance. The theme is the philosophy that forms the base of the story or a
moral lesson that the characters learn. It is the message that the play gives to
the audience. For example, the theme of a play could be of how greed leads to
one's destroyal, or how the wrong use of authority ultimately results in the end
of power. The theme of a play could be blind love or the strength of selfless
love and sacrifise, or true friendship. For example, the play Romeo and Juliet,
is based on a brutal and overpowering romantic love between Romeo and Juliet
4. Characters
play, television series, film, or video game). From this, the sense of "a part
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Types of Character
a. Confidante
also be a confidante.
b. Dynamic Character
character.”
c. Static Character
d. Antagonist
main character. The action in the story arises from a conflict between the
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e. Protagonist
Every story has a protagonist, the main character, who creates the
action of the plot and engages readers, arousing their empathy and interest.
The protagonist is often a hero or heroine of the story, as the whole plot
f. Round Character
story. They are more realistic, and demonstrate more depth in their
readers’ attention. There are many factors that may affect them, and round
g. Flat Character
h. Stock Character
readers. Like a flat character, the stock character does not undergo any
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Function of Character
plot, make it readable and interesting. Many stories use multiple characters,
and every story has a main character that affects the plot a great deal. The main
round character. Readers feel that the characters given in the literary pieces
exist, and they enjoy reading their real and lifelike figures and actions.
5. Plot
Definition of Plot
Plot is a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story, or
the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a
events in a logical manner. When writing the plot of a piece of literature, the
author has to be careful that it does not dominate the other parts of the story.
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Primary Elements of a Plot
a. Exposition or Introduction
This is the beginning of the story, where characters and setting are
b. Rising Action
conflict. The main characters are established by the time the rising action
of a plot occurs, and at the same time, events begin to get complicated. It
encountered.
c. Climax
In the climax, or the main point of the plot, there is a turning point
d. Falling Action
and complications begin to resolve. The result of the actions of the main
e. Resolution
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Resolution, or the conclusion, is the end of a story, which may
Function of Plot
A plot is one of the most important parts of a story, and has many different
purposes. Firstly, the plot focuses attention on the important characters and
their roles in the story. It motivates the characters to affect the story, and
connects the events in an orderly manner. The plot creates a desire for the
The plot leads to the climax, but by gradually releasing the story in order
emotionally involved, connecting with thse book, not allowing himself to put
the book down. Eventually, the plot reveals the entire story, giving the reader
a sense of completion that he has finished the story and reached a conclusion.
think about the book and even making them want to read it again. By
identifying and understanding the plot, the reader is able to understand the
message being conveyed by the author, and the explicit or implicit moral of
the story.
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6. Sources
The sources here refer to the references of the drama or play is created.
Commonly, the particular story of the play is taken from the sources of other
story, such as, based on true story, inspired by the fairy tale, legend, or folktale.
Sometimes, it also is taken from the story that was written by the other
something improved.
7. Style
The style here means the using of playwright who uses the language style
not only focusing on the language but also about the diction, the use of
logical order. And, if there something outstanding in the style, for example, the
of the play.
When there is the aspect of the play that is conspicuous in some sense it is
called as the outstanding features of the play. And when there is the
definition of the play. The examples of the outstanding features in the play,
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such as, in Othello that Desdemona’s handkerchief, which keeps changing
hand throughout the play. In Onelill’s The Iceman Cometh that it runs some six
CHAPTER III
CONCLUSION
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