Family Abuse by Bernard Marsier is the drama that played in two acts. The drama used tragedy as the genre of the story, and scene by scene is going very intense with all those conflicts that accepted by all characters. The story is tell about the man named Carl with his little family and Carl is have addiction to alcohol and drug that slowly ruin his life and destroy his little family.
This essay will devide into many points, include characteristic, theme, PoV, setting, plot, implicit meaning and tone. First we are going to discuss about characteristic, the people (animals or ideas) portrayed by the actors in the play. It is the characters who move the action or plot.
1. CARL : African – American, with a drug and alcohol addiction.
2. NIKKI : African – American, Carl’s wife.
3. YOUNG TAMARA : Six-year-old, Carl & Nikki’s house
4. JACKIE : African – American, Nikki’s friend.
5. TEENAGE TAMARA : Sixteen-years-old.
6. DOMINIC : African – American, smooth talking drug dealer.
7. DOCTOR : African – American, early thirties.
8. HANCHMAN : The husky African – American
Next part, its going to explain and spell out about the setting of the drama. The story opens up in Carl & Nikki’s house. It was pictured in the statement, “On this rainy night, the sound of rain can be heard hitting against the windows. CARL comes in dripping wet, drunk, wearing something casual. He closes the door laughing making his way towards the stairs.” The setting of time is based in the present time. “On this rainy night, the sound of rain can be heard hitting against the windows…”
Lets move to plot, that refers to the actions; basic storyline of the play
1. Exposition
At the beginning of the story, characters, setting and the main conflict are typically introduced. “On this rainy night, the sound of rain can be heard hitting against the windows. CARL comes in dripping wet, drunk, wearing something casual. He closes the door laughing making his way towards the stairs.”
2. Rising Action
The main character is in crisis and events leading up to facing the conflict begin to unfold. The story becomes complicated. “Carl is sitting against the wall drunk with empty bottle resting by his leg, along with syringe. His eyes are glazed, mouth open, staring off into space. Young Tamara walks into the room running over to him concerned, shaking his arm. Carl slowly leans to the side falling to the floor closing his eyes.”
3. Climax
At the peak of the story, a major event occurs in which the main character faces a major enemy, fear, challenge, or other source of conflict. Statement from the story is caused by the old friend of Carl that always offered the latest type of drug after ten years of AA meeting and rehab. “Dominic comes on stage with cool pimp walk wearing a suit, carrying a briefcase.” The setting of this statement is in front of their house.
4. Falling Action
The story begins to slow down and work towards its end, tying up loose ends.
“TEENAGE TAMARA – I learn from…- She begins having problems breathing, wide-eyed, grabbing at her chest, falling out the chair. Carl drops his glass rushing over to her kneeling down. She begins shaking, foaming at the mouth.” By this statement that set in the kitchen, teenage Tamara was get coma because she ingested a massive amount of Heroin that she got from sugar canister, she thought that it was pure sugar and start to eat with the cereal.
5. Denoument
The resolution is like a concluding paragaraph that resolves any remaining issues and ends the story. “Carl is sitting at the kitchen table smoking a cigarette with a bottle of liquor, the snub nose and a syringe filled with Heroin on the table – maybe everybody was right. Look at me. Only a weak-minded person would be doing this, instead of accepting the situation he created – He squeezes the trigger blowing his brain out, falling from the chair dead.”
