KUMPULAN NASKAH DRAMA BAHASA INGGRIS 3

Secrets Forgiven

By Valerie A. Klaus

 

Summary: Kirsten has hidden secrets from her past. She’s never dealt with them or shared them with her soon-to-be fiancé. Will she be able to share them? Will he forgive her? Or will their relationship end? Kami has secrets, too. Is it her fault her mom is sick? Who can she tell of her feelings about her dad? These and other questions are answered when both girls find out that God forgives all. Keywords: Family relationships, mental illness, hurt, anger, forgiveness, marriage
Style: Dramatic.  Duration: Approx. 60-75mins
Scripture reference: Luke 7:47,48
Actors: 5M, 6F, 3C, 6M/F, 1VO (doubles can be used)

Characters

KIRSTEN. Women in her late 30’s, works with teens in Church/ HS.

KAMI. Young teen, attends church and HS where Kirsten teaches.

SHELLY. Kami’s friend from school.

BOY/GIRL At school.

KYLE.   Boy at school.

JORDAN. Man in his early 30’s, Intern at the church.

MRS. GREER. Kirsten’s mother.

MR. BLACK.     Kami’s father, Mitch.

MRS. BLACK. Kami’s mom, Sharon.

CAMERON Shelly’s brother. 7-10 years old.

PASTOR DAN. Pastor and counselor to Kirsten and Jordan.

THERAPIST White Doctor coat, female or male.

KYLES MOM    About 45, casual.

COACH. About 35, casual.

WAITRESS/WAITER 3 Romantic table.

WAITRESS /WAITER 2. 50’s table.

WAITRESS/WAITER 1. Outside café.

OLDER SISTER/BROTHER. Young teenager.

SIBLINGS 1 & 2. 8-10 year old.

SECRETARY. Voice off stage.

FEMINIST ANALYSIS ON LITERATURE

A. BACKGROUND

Feminist shows the awareness of women right and attitudes toward women in male-dominated (patriarchal) cultural, social, political, and economic structure. Based on Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, Feminist is 1. The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes 2.Organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feminist).

Based on Wikipedia, Feminism is the belief that women should have equal political, social, sexual, intellectual and economic rights to men. It involves various movements, theories, and philosophies, all concerned with issues of gender difference, that advocate equality for women and that campaign for women’s rights and interests (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist).

Other experts of feminism stated that, "Feminist theorists generally share four concerns." (Jaggar and Rothenberg in Mandell, 1995:4):

a. Feminist theorist seeks to understand the gendered nature of virtually all-social and institutional relations.

b. Gender relations are constructed as problematic related to other inequalities and contradiction in social life.

c. Gender relations are not viewed as either natural or immutable but as historical and socio-cultural productions, subjects to reconstitution. In particular, feminist analyses deconstruct errors and myths about women abilities, add to knowledge about women’s empirical realities and construct theory by and about women.

d. Feminist theory tends to be explicitly political in their advocacy of social change.

 

There are many reasons that provide basis of it (Djajanegara: 1 in Saraswati, 2003), they are:

At first is Political aspect that shows when American citizen proclaiming their freedom in 1776. In the Declaration of Independent is written that “all men created equal”, without take women in there. As the result in convention in Seneca Falls at 1848, the feminist figures have declared the other version of Declaration of Independent of America as “all women and men are created equal”.

The second is Religion aspect. The church, both of Christian and Catholic take the woman position lower than man. As Christian belief that woman’s duty is just the server in the home and arranges their household. While, Catholic proposed that women are the dirty creature and representatives of devil.

The third is Social aspect and Marxism. It is started on Frederick Engels statement “within the family he is the bourgeois and the wife represents the proletariat”. The American women is supposed to be the oppressed in capitalist society, they didn’t have a value because her duty is only to manage their household. That was not equal to the men job which gives the outcome as money.

The main goal of Feminism is to increase the position and the right of women to the same as the position of men. The struggle of feminism to get their goal has several ways, and the one of them is to get the same right and position toward men (equal right) and women emancipation movement.

A Feminist Literary Criticism of Emily Dickinson’s Poem “I ’m wife; I’ve finished that” (Poem #189)

By

Ardika Rizky Saputri

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this essay is to analyze the poem of Emily Dickinson, “I ’m wife; I’ve finished that” with feminism literary criticism.

Feminist literary criticism is looking at literature and authors from a feminist point of view. Coming from an understanding that literature is not neutral but reflects political perspectives, feminist literary criticism is linked to feminist politics. It has needed to be strong and angry, at times, to shake up the certainties of male-dominated culture and make a freer atmosphere for women writers and readers (Magezis, 1996: 55 in Elma, 2003: 35)

In the Dickinson’s poem, “I ’m wife; I’ve finished that”, it showed the woman’s difference of freedom when they are married and have not married. It is not amazed if this poem is connected to feminism approach. Feminist scholars have examined Dickinson’s poems and letters in an effort to gain some insight into how the poet responded to the gender-restrictive values of the mid-nineteenth-century patriarchal society. These critics have concluded that while as a person Dickinson succumbed to a life of social marginality and seclusion, as a poet she opened a new frontier of feminine power and assertiveness through her transcendent and imaginative verse.

Feminist scholars have identified a number of Dickinson’s poems which directly comment upon the role and experiences of women within a repressive patriarchal order. In addition, some of these critics have suggested that many more poems can be interpreted as the poet’s opinion of gender issues if one were to assume that the speaker in each verse is a female. For example, Poem 271 (“A solemn thing—it was—I said—”) presents the image of “a woman—white,” which may be a reference to a bride, a novice nun, or a female poet. At the conclusion, the speaker of the poem finds satisfaction in her “‘small’ life,” which some commentators have suggested is a rejection of conventional female roles in favor of pursuing those that she finds more fulfilling. A similar theme of empowerment has been detected in Poem 657 (“I dwell in Possibility—”), which many critics have maintained is a commentary on the ability of the female artist to subvert the oppressive limitations of the patriarchal order through the transcendental power of poetry. Though her poems were not grouped into published collections during her lifetime, Dickinson did sew certain poems into “fascicles,” or small booklets, indicating that she viewed them as related meditations on a central theme. Her fascicle 22, which includes Poem 271, is one example. Scholars have focused on the poems in this fascicle—which reflect on such subjects as domestic life, liberty, human relationships, and spiritual redemption—as verses indicative of Dickinson’s desire to defy the social and gender conventions of her day.

Dickinson’s poetry reflects her loneliness as we know she was seldom left her house and by the 1860s, Dickinson lived in almost total physical isolation from the outside world. The speakers of her poems generally live in a state of want, but her poems are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the possibility of happiness. Her work was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England, as well as her reading of the Book of Revelation and her upbringing in a Puritan New England town which encouraged a Calvinist, orthodox, and conservative approach to Christianity.

Many of Dickinson’s poems discuss female identity in relation to males and her own identity in accordance to religion, nature, life and love. I think some of her poetry could definitely be grounded in the probability that she might have been thinking of her own identity in a society where first the father dominates and then the husband, but where she has experienced neither. When both don’t exist, the patriarchal system has been undercut.

“In I’m wife I’ve finished that” Emily want to show the difference of to be “woman” and “wife”. The statement was said that this poem is about an uneasy-contradictory feeling of a young woman who is turning into a woman, especially a wife that seems “safer and more comfortable”, but stopping her from becoming a full human being with no self empowerment and self identity anymore (Akun from Indonesia in http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/emilydickinson/10150/comments). There is a different position between “woman” and “wife” that show how both of them take steps. For further analysis of this poem will be discussed in the next section deeply.

A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER “A ROSE FOR EMILY”

By:

ARDIKA RIZKY SAPUTRI

A Rose for Emily is William Faulkner’s short story, which tells about the life of Ms. Emily, which is eccentric. This story is narrated through a third person’s point of view. It appears that the narrator is on the outside looking in, and giving his or her version of the life and events leading to the death of Emily. The combination of the past, Emily, and the future, the town or community is widely seen throughout the work. The story starts with Ms. Emily’s funeral. It states that “the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man servant, a combined gardener and cook had seen in at least ten years.” As we can see, Miss. Emily was sort of like a mystery to citizens of the town.

Miss Emily is a stubborn and sheltered woman who refuses, or perhaps cannot except that the world around her is changing. She lives in her father’s house in isolation with her Negro servant, Tobe seemingly unaffected by time. Miss Emily was raised by her father and was taught that she was of a higher class then the rest of the town. The Griersons, once a prestigious family name, becomes part of the past and no longer holds such resonance. She was continuously reminded that no man was good enough for her, which then led to a life without the love of another man besides her father. Once her father dies, she refuses to come to terms with his death and repeatedly claims that her father is still alive. When she alive, she had been a tradition, a duty and a care. She was dedicated as the figure of imperialism people in the southern American, who are land owner and rich people.

Life is sad and tragic; some of which is made for us and some of which we make ourselves. Emily had a hard life. Everything that she loved left her. Her father probably impressed upon her that every man she met was not good enough for her. The townspeople even talked about her when her father died and talked about how “The house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad being left alone. She had become humanized”. This sounds as if her father’s death was sort of a relief for Emily. In a way it was, she could begin to date and date men of her choice and liking. Her father couldn’t chase them off any more. Now since the passing of her father unfortunately, for Emily she became home bound. She didn’t socialize much. Faulkner describes Emily and her family as a high social class. Emily did carry herself with dignity and people gave her that respect based on fear of what Emily could do to them.