Senin, 16 April 2012


THE SWAN SONG

The Swan Song is a drama which written by Anton Checklov .He was born on January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."[1]
            “The Swan Song” is a kind of melodrama. It means a drama which is like as a play, film, or television program, characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and interpersonal conflicts       .[2]In the Swan song drama First character is Vasili Svietlovidov, he is a comedian, and sixty eight years old. Second, Nikita Ivanitchi, he is a prompter and old man too. The second characters in this drama are Nikustha that became a prompter. Scvietlovidov often feel frightened. He more feel lonely when he aware there is no one who cares with him, especially in that time when the play was over. He feels asleep in the dressing-room and he was calmly snoring after all of the audience had left the theatre. He do not have family. To express his sadness because his aloneness, Scvietlovidov has a bad behave, he likes drunk. He searched Petruska and Yegorka, his partner in the theatre but there was not them in that place. Being alone made him very frustrated, there is no one who cares with him. Nikustha want to entertain Scvietlovidov with convinced him, there is audience who loves him. In contrast, he thought that his audience just considered him same as clown.
             As a result he remembered his past experiences, everything that have been he reached with beautifully ways. It is adorn his heart and his thought. Now, he is thinking about him self looks like a swan song which have been living by his friends in his group because he feel like a decrepit and can not give another one everything except burdened  them. While Nikita Ivanitch, the prompter feel as same as Scvietlovidov . The lonely of Scvietlovidov a little bit comforted after told about his past experience to  Nikita Ivanitch, this story especially retell about his perkiness and how energetic him, handsome when he was still young. He remembered his first experience went on the stage; there was a girl who loved him very much. Unfortunately, she can not being his wife because the girl  just love an actor but she could not accept their job. His sadness reaches a crest when the prompter also remembered his past experience when their age became obstacle to maintain their career.
            After this event, Scvietlovidov don’t belief audience anymore. Although, they gave applause to him but they really understand that their audience saw him as the dirt beneath of their feet. He also preferred to take parts of buffoons and low comedian whereas he has power to expressing himself on the stage. In addition, because that girl too ,he began to wander aimlessly about like living in this world without certain purposes. Although, he was great artist once, but till little by little he threw away his talent in theatre. He has ever been a main character in some title such as a King Lear, Hamlet, and Othello. Moreover, because his stupidity, he feel just like  a Merry Andrew instead of a man. To entertain himself Scvietlovidov role play Hamlet drama with Nikustha.
            In dramas produced to a great extent through the use of symbols –or representations-standing in for real things. Many of the following can be understood as a symbol; such as props, gestures, expression, costumes, lighting, and setting.[3] In this drama there are several props from the beginning until the end of the performance for instance first in the beginning the background of the stage is encumbered with all sorts of rubbish. In this occasion, it describes the feeling of the main character Scvietlovidov who was very frustrated with his condition, do not have a family furthermore no one cares with him. Second, In the middle of the stage is an overturned stool, it was showing that Scvietlovidov’s condition now is the opposite one of his past condition. In the past time, he was a great artist but now he is just a proper artist who lost his good talent in theatre.
            There are some gestures that represented in this drama such as when Nikustha comes out, the Scvietlovidov’s  gestures was shrieks with terror and steps back. It means that he was very afraid because Nikusthta comes out suddenly and he thought that no one in that place. Moreover when Nikustha comes slowly toward to him his gesture changed to be so sinks helplessly onto the stool, breathes heavily and trembles violence. Relating to the Costumes, Nikustha used a long white coat costumes it represented character’s innocence/purity. Lighting in this drama was so dark until Scvietlovidov could not see anything. It represented his feeling too that was very dark and always getting sadness. In contrast, after that he found footlight and it represented he would found the best way to solve his aloneness and it’s true suddenly Nikustha comes out from the dressing room at the farthest end of the stage and listen all of his problems in his live for along time. Another aspect of symbols besides props, gestures, expression, costumes, lighting, the last one is about setting. The setting is on the stage of a country theatre, it represented that the actor has job in this place.
            To describing his condition Scvietlovidov always use a simile such as;
I am like the wind blowing across the lonely fields.
I am as the dirt beneath their feet
Not only using simile but he used too poem and the words of those poem if we can analyze has correlation too with his feeling at that time for instance;
"The moon had set. There was not any light,
Save of the lonely legion'd watch-stars pale
This poem illustrated his life, he considered the moon is the girl who he loved in the past and star is him. He always feel alone in this life like these star in this poem.
            In conclusion this drama consists of two characters. They are Vasili Svietllovidoff (Svietllovidoff) and Nikita Ivanitchi (Nikustha/ Ivanitchi ). The characteristic of Svietllovidoff are drunkard, workaholic, impatience, pessimistic, has a high talent in drama, loyal and sentimental. These characters can we find out from the Svietllovidoff’s behaviour. A different view from Nikustha he is patient, fainthearted and charitable. This drama is good enough and interesting if just look from the script because we did not know the responds of the audience .A good drama must have an appeal to the audience. In the opposite one, not all of the people can get best understanding from this drama because the word too difficult, as a result to catch the meaning directly without deep interpretation first is difficult too.

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