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CLASS >> DRAMA ( A )
Assignment 3 of DRAMA
THE PROPOSAL
a play in one-act
by Anton Chekhov
A. Structural Elements of Drama
1. Character and Characterization
Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov, 70 years old, a landowner. He is a kind-man and polite, for instance to his neighbor. He is relax and senile.
Natalya Stepanovna, his daughter, 25 years old. Natalya is a fussy girl. She wants to get everything what she wants. She is in love, egad, she is like a lovesick cat.
Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov, 35 years old, a neighbour of Tschubukov, a large and hearty, but very suspicious landowner. Ivan is a large and hearty. If he gets nervous, his heart is palpitating awfully, especially when face with Natalya. He does not have a brave in front of woman.
2. Setting
Setting of place : In a Chubukov's country-house (In the past time). A drawing-room in Chubukov’s House.
3. Plot
The storyline of the play proposal is about two friends who are neighbors Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov and Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov. Stepan has a daughter Natalya Stepanovna who is ready for marriage the Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov is a fairly old man who is full of ailments. A Marriage Proposal is about the tendency of wealthy families to seek other wealthy families, to increase their estates by encouraging marriages that made good economic sense, and the problems that arise in marriage. In the play, Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov, long time wealthy neighbor of Stepan Stepanovitch Tschubukov, also wealthy, has come to seek marriage of Tschubukov's twenty-five year-old daughter, Natalya Stepanovna. Lomov and Stepanovna are bickerers at heart and fight throughout the play until the end, when they get married, only, presumably, to argue more after. He wants to marry his Natalia, he thus proposes to his friend Stepan who says that it will depend on his daughter consenting. He calls his daughter but instead the suitor changes story to a land dispute.
Natalia and her father become so irritated that they throw the suitor out, after he has left Stepan tells Natalia that he had actually come to propose, She feels very sorry and tells her father to call him back, after coming back Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov pretends to have to have fallen down and died then he comes back to life and kisses Natalia and immediately there is party because the proposal has gone through.
Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov, a long-time neighbor of Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov, has come to propose marriage to Chubukov's 25-year-old daughter, Natalia. After he has asked and received joyful permission to marry Natalia, she is invited into the room, and he tries to convey to her the proposal. Lomov is a hypochondriac, and, while trying to make clear his reasons for being there, he gets into an argument with Natalia about The Oxen Meadows, a disputed piece of land between their respective properties, which results in him having "palpitations" and numbness in his leg. After her father notices they are arguing, he joins in, and then sends Ivan out of the house. While Stepan rants about Lomov, he expresses his shock that "this fool dares to make you (Natalia) a proposal of marriage!"
4. Theme
The farce explores the process of getting married and could be read as a satire on the upper middle class and courtship. The play points out the struggle to balance the economic necessities of marriage and what the characters themselves actually want. It shows the characters' desperation for marriage as comical. In Chekhov's Russia, marriage was a mean of economic stability for most people. They married to gain wealth and possessions or to satisfy social pressure. The satire is conveyed successfully by emphasizing the couple's foolish arguments over small things. The main arguments in the play revolve around The Oxen Meadows and two dogs called Ugadi and Otkatai.
B. Conclussion
The proposal is a naturalistic play by Anton Chekhov, He introduced an important variation to realism of Ibsen, he moved away from melodramatic elements such as suicides, he orchestrated his plays in such a way that their stories overlapped and echoed each other, Chekhov also developed a blend of tragedy and comedy, creating a genre called tragicomedy The naturalistic element is very evident in this play since the characters action are seen to be motivated by their natural environment. They therefore come out as product of their environment rather than products of the society.
"In the short play "A Marriage Proposal," Anton Chekhov describes the odd courtship of Lomov, who seeks a marriage with his neighbor's daughter. Lomov and the woman he wants to marry fight before he can make his proposal, fight while he proposes, and fight after she agrees to marry him. They tend to fight every time they speak to one another, and while this alarms her father at first, he decides that the two just like to fight with each other.
In the end, the father calls this last fight the "beginning of family happiness," though it is doubtful that a couple can fight all the time and achieve anything like bliss. The meeting between Lomov and Chubukov suggests one sort of neighborhood arrangement, for Chubukov could not be friendlier and more delighted to see Lomov, happier being asked about the marriage, and more positive about Lomov's prospects."
So, this drama appeared of Man vs. Society : because in the proposal drama there are some conflicts among its characters. Besides that, The Proposal tells about marriage was a means of economic stability for most people. In this play, the concept of marriage is being satirized to show the real purpose of marriage – materialistic gain rather than true love. So, there is an interaction between people (society).
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