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Drama Plot Structure

Drama Plot Structure. Exposition : Presentation of characters, setting, and basic situation in which characters are involved. Rising Action : complication develops, conflicts emerge, suspense builds, crisis occurs. Climax : Point in which the plot’s tension peaks.

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Drama Plot Structure

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  1. Drama Plot Structure • Exposition: Presentation of characters, setting, and basic situation in which characters are involved. • Rising Action: complication develops, conflicts emerge, suspense builds, crisis occurs. • Climax: Point in which the plot’s tension peaks. • Falling Action: Intensity subsides • Resolution/Denouement: Loose ends tied up

  2. Reading DramaPreview-Highlight-Annotate • Trace plot- identify the plot structure • Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution • Analyze characters • Who are the central characters? What are their most distinctive traits? How do we learn about them? • Examine dialogue/language: • formal, informal, colloquial • Look for additional information: • soliloquies, asides, symbolism (What information do they contribute?) • Pay attention to stage direction: staging of characters in relation to each other, props, costuming.

  3. Susan Glaspell • Literary Background • Influenced by Kate Chopin & Fanny Fern • Writers concerned with the inequality of the sexes and their inability to live their own life without reliance on men. • Provincetown Players: a venue of American plays that were too experimental and controversial for Broadway.

  4. Fanny Fern Charlotte Perkins Gilman Susan Glaspell

  5. Susan Glaspell • Biographical Background • Born in Davenport, Iowa- July 1 1876 • Wrote for a newspaper • Marries Cook after an affair with him. Cook is a revolutionary and into free love. He serves as a catalyst for her writing. • Active member of radical feminist club “Heterodoxy” with Charlotte Perkins Gilman- group promotes sexual, political, and professional freedom.

  6. Character Analysis • What does each character want most at the beginning of the play? • Who would you consider to be the protagonist? Why? • Who would you consider to be the antagonist? Why?

  7. Trifles pgs. 895-905 • Character analysis • Characterization • Determine what each character wants most at the beginning of the play. How do their wants change throughout the play? • Determine the protagonist/antagonist. Is there a switch in roles? • Connect the characters to the development of the theme. How do they advance the meaning of the work as a whole?

  8. Trifles pgs. 895-905 • Plot analysis • Determine the plot structure- identify the arrangement of information/events. • Identify the central conflict. • How do the character’s motivations fit into the central conflict? • How do each of the plots main events relate to the protagonist’s character.

  9. Trifles pgs. 895-905 • Symbolism analysis • Identify possible symbolism within the events of the play. • Connect the symbolism to the advancement of the central theme of the story. • Does the protagonist achieve the goal? How does success or failure affect the central theme?

  10. Trifles pgs. 895-905 • Watch any hour-long television drama. Write about the main conflict that drives the story. What motivates the protagonist? How do each of the drama’s main events relate to the protagonist’s character? Is the show’s outcome connected to the protagonist’s character, or do events just happen? Provide any other analysis of the story based on symbolism, plot or character.

  11. Krapp’s Last Tape pg. 1658 • Character analysis • Characterization • Determine what character wants most at the beginning of the play. • Determine the protagonist/antagonist • Connect the character to the development of the theme. How do they advance the meaning of the work as a whole.

  12. Krapp’s Last Tape pg. 1658 • Plot analysis • Determine the plot structure- identify the arrangement of information/events. • Identify the central conflict. • How does the character motivations fit into the central conflict? • How do each of the plots main events relate to the protagonist’s character.

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