The Analysis of Plot And Setting In

“The Phantom of The Opera” Drama

(Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart)
Members of the Group:
1. Dita Amalia Santoso
2. Bendesa Gede W.P Sadhu
3. Anney Kastina Putri
4. Bagus Andy Dwi Ananda
 The Phantom of the Opera (1986)

Is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics

by Charles Hart (performed at The Royal Albert Hall). The opera is
based on the eponymus French novel by Gaston Leroux, its
central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daae,
who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical
genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris
Opera House.
 Concept of Plot and Setting
• Plot
Freytag’s Pyramid
• Setting

The time and place where a story is set is one of its important
parts. The era or time in which the incidents in the play take
place, influence the characters in their appearance and
personalities.
Letherbridge and Mildorf :

• “… the plot of a play is never presented in a vacuum but always against

the background of a specific scenery and often the setting corresponds
with what is going on in the storyworld.”

• “The setting can thus support the expression of the world view current at
a certain time or general philosophical, ethical or moral questions.”

• “The naturalistic setting is used as indirect characterisation and defines

the characters’ conflicts or struggles.”
Plot Analysis
 Exposition

Exposition/Introduction: Sets the scene. The writer introduces the

characters and setting, providing description and background, by

presenting a conflict, the play prepares the audience for

the action in subsequent acts.
Exposition in the drama

The Exposition in the drama is when the Madam Giry introduce

two new managers and they do not believe in the phantom
issues. When it comes to the main soprano perform, Carllota, she
suddenly feels ill and replaced by the young soprano called
Christine Daaé. And her perform make Raoul de Chagny felt in
love.
 Complicating Action

Complicating Action: Sometimes called inciting incident, is a

single event that begins the major conflict. Builds during the
story and gets more exciting.
Complicating Action In Drama

The complicating action of the drama is when the managers

receive a letter that must allow Christine to perform lead role,
they though it was a prank than ignore it. The tragedy then
happens and Christine was kidnapped by the Phantom. He
reveals himself as Erik.
 Climax Peripety

Climax Peripety: Is the moment of greatest tension in the story. A

crisis occurs where the deed is committed that will lead to the
catastrophe, and this brings about a turn (peripety) in the plot.
Climax Peripety In Drama

The climax of the drama is when Erik decide to keep Christine

forever but then she release by the Phantom. Christine then told
Raoul about Erik and want to runaway. Unfortunately Erik heard
what they two talk about.
 Falling Action

Falling Action: happens as a result of the climax and we know that

the story will soon end. Character solves the main
problem/conflict or someone solves it for him or her. Creates new
tension in that it delays the final catastrophe by further events.
Falling Action In Drama

In Phantom of the Opera, the falling action is when Christine was

finally willing to go down to the place of the phantom (known as
Erik). This scene called as the falling action because the action
occurs as the result of the climax that reveals who the Phantom is
and what he wants all this time.
 Resolution

Resolution known as the “problem solved” scene which shows

that finally the characters solves the main problem/conflict in
drama.
Resolution In Drama

There was a tense scene where Raoul, who tried to save Christine,
was held hostage by Erik but he finally realized about the
meaning of true love because of Christine’s sincerity and finally
willing to let her go.
 Denouement/Catastrophe

Denouement/Catastrophe: Is the series of events that follow the

plot’s climax. It is the opposite of the exposition, in that any
remaining questions or mysteries that remain after the resolution
are solved by the characters or explained by the author.
Sometimes the author leaves us to think about the theme or
future possibilities for the characters.
Denouement/Catastrophe In Drama

At the end, Erik must be willing to lose the person he loves for
the happiness of that person. Nonetheless due to deep feelings
of sadness, Erik died in solitude without Christine who had left
with Raoul. The end.
Setting Analysis
 Setting of Place

Where or location in which the story takes place.

• Paris
• The Palais Garnier or Paris Opera House:

In the beginning it was showed the famous gigantic chandelier

which can only be found in Paris Opera House.
• On the stage inside Paris Opera House

In the introduction the characters were doing rehearsal for next

day performance (Hannibal) inside the The Palais Garnier/ Paris
Oper House.
• Dressing room
• On the roof of the opera house
• Christine Father’s Grave
• Erik’s Secret Lair
 Setting of Time

When or what period of time in which the story takes place.

• The year of 1905

• The Day of Hannibal Performance
• Night Time

-Raoul says
“We go to Supper”
• Show Day of Death Takes A Holiday Drama
• Masquerade Ball Night
 Social Situation
Social context to inform your understanding of the characters and
events. Does the setting help to place the events in a particular
social context

• People are
more likely to
love Operas
or Theaters
 Atmosphere

“This short dialogue not only conveys to the audience the time of
night but it also uses word painting to describe the weather
conditions and the overall atmosphere (“air bites”, “very cold”,
“nipping”). Word painting means that actors describe the scenery
vividly and thus create or ‘paint’ a picture in the viewers’ minds.”

- The purpose of establishing atmosphere is to create emotional

effect.
• Shocking and Dangerous
• Eerie
• Christine joins The Phantom to his lair
• Tense
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