usually a clue of something which stimulates the reader to questioning or to grab something which is not right.
Raising action is the part when the conflict starts rising. In this part, reader can see how characters react against the conflict. This is made the story live and
real because here, the writer brings conflict which reflects one that really happened in the real life.
Climax is the point when the conflict in the story raises its top. It is usually marked by the change of some characters. Conflict which has happened must left
some changes to some characters of the story. In the plot there are conflicts. Conflict rose to deliver the message that would be delivered by the author via the
characters. How characters deal with the conflict finally becomes the point of stories. The value is implied in the action of characters overcome the conflict.
Conflict can be an opposition of two people, between larger groups of
people, or between individual and larger forces nature. “Unless there is doubt, there is no tension, and unless there is tension, there is no interest” Jacobs, 1987:
87-88 Conflict in Plot is the establishment of contrasting or conflicting situations
and responses that produces the interest the short-short story contains. So there may be more than one conflict in the fiction. It also may lead to one major conflict
in the end of the story.Jacobs, 1987: 88 There is a falling action. It is like a cooling down after the climax is
reached in a play. Here, the tense is decreasing as the story comes to the end which is called resolution.
In the resolution, there is a conclusion about the answer of the conflict which is happened. It can be the declaration or statement of the writer to end up
the story. It also can be an action of the characters to close the story by solving the problem arising in the play.
C. Theoretical Framework
The theory character and characterization is used to analyze the natures of man characters which are shown in the play. The natures of man characters can be derived
from first, the description of the author. Second, It can be shown frim the other characters’ utterance about the character. Third, behind the utterance of the character
himself there is the implication of the nature of the character. Forth, the nature of the character is lied behind the action that the character did.
The theory of plot is really important to see the flow of the story in the play. There are five steps of the flow of the story. The first one is exposition. The second one is
raising action. The third one is climax. The forth one is falling action and the last one is resolution. In each part of the plot there are some reactions from the man characters
that finally lead them to the failure of motive disclosure. The characters of man in Trifles
which had been found in the first part of analysis using the theory of character and characterization is used to see how the character react against the condition
existed in the flow of the story. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
The object of the study is a play script by Susan Glaspell entitled Trifles. It is a one act play-script released on January 7, 2004 and updated on March 17,
2011. Trifles is released at gutenberg.org with other Glaspell’s play script. There are Trifles, The Outside. The Verge, and Inheritors. The e-book was produced by
Suzanne Shell, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Trifles
is a firstly played by Princetown Players at Wharf Theatre, Provincetown, Mass., August 8, 1916.
There are seven characters but, only five characters plays in this story. The two characters are Minnie Foster and John Wright. They are a married couple.
Both of them are not shown in the story. The readers know them from the description of other characters and the author’s statement. The five characters are
those who came to the house of Minnie Foster to looking for the evidence to show the motive of the murder of John Wright. They are Mr. Henderson as a County
attorney, Mr. Hale as a farmer neighbor and his wife Mrs. Hale, Mr. Peters the sheriff and his wife Mrs. Peters.
The whole story takes place in the kitchen. The place reflects the role of women in that story. Susan Glaspell is a feminist writer and she carries a message
to not underestimate women in her story. The kitchen and how the women show her ability is completely shown in this story.
