FITRI
ANDRIYANI
DRAMA
STUDIES
“THE MAIN CONFLICT OF LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN”
A.
INTRODUCTION
Lady
Windermere’s Fan is comedy play by Oscar Wilde. It is first produced on February
22, 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in
1893. This play consists of four acts and it tells about Victorian society. In
Victorian society, a woman who has married must respect to their husband. They
must at home and doing what their husband asked, and they also must to
keep the secret of their
family.
The play tells
about woman
named Lady Windermere. She is beautiful and innocent woman, she has married with man, named Lord Windermere. The conflicts begin when
there was
a gossip about Lord
Windermere that has affair with a woman, named Mrs. Erlynne.
B.
THESIS
STATEMENT
What is the main conflict in Lady Windermere’s fan?
C.
BODY
Plot
1.
Exposition
The story begins on morning room of Lord Windermere’s house in Carlton
House Terrace. Lady Windermere arranged roses in a blue bowl for her birthday
party. When she was arranging the roses, Lord Darlington came and had a chat
with her. They talked about Lady Windermere’s birthday party. Shortly after,
The Duchess of Berwick and Agatha (her daughter) came to meet Lady Windermere,
but unfortunately Lord Darlington was there.
2.
Rising
Action
a.
Duchess
of Berwick tells to Lady Windermere that Lord Windermere has affair with Mrs.
Erlynne.
DUCHESS OF BERWICK. Ah, what indeed, dear? That is the point. He goes to see her continually, and stops for hours at
a time, and while
he is there she is not at home to anyone …
LADY WINDERMERE. Oh,
I can’t believe it! (Act 1)
b.
Lady
Windermere found check of Lord Windermere to Mrs. Erlynne.
LADY WINDERMERE. …
[Puts book back in dranver. As the does
so, starts and takes out another book.] A second book—private—locked! [Tries to open it, but fails. Sees paper
knife on bureau, and with it cuts cover from book. Begins to start at the first
page.] ‘Mrs. Erlynne—600 pounds—Mrs.
Erlynne—700 pounds—Mrs. Erlynne—400 pounds.’ Oh! it is true! It is true!
How horrible! [Throws book on floor.]
(Act 1).
c.
Lord
Windermere asked his wife to invite Mrs. Erlynne in his wife’s birthday party.
LORD WINDERMERE. …
I want you to send her an invitation for
our party to-night. [Standing L. of
her.]
LADY WINDERMERE. You
are mad! [Rises.] (Act 1).
d.
Lady
Windermere leaving her home to Lord Darlington’s home
MRS. ERLYNNE. …
Thank Heaven I am in time. You must go back to your husband’s house
immediately.
LADY WINDERMERE.
Must?
MRS. ERLYNNE. [Authoritatively.] Yes, you must! There is
not a second to be lost. Lord Darlington
may return at any moment
e.
Lady
Windermere’s fan leaves Lord Darlington behind the room
LORD WINDERMERE. What is my wife’s fan doing here in your
rooms?, …
LORD DARLINGTON. Your
wife’s fan? (Act 3)
3.
Climax
Mrs. Erlynne found Lady Windermere’s letter to Lord Windermere. Then,
she asks Lady Windermere to go home.
PARKER. Yes,
madam—her ladyship told me she had left a letter for his lordship on the table.
MRS. ERLYNNE. A letter for Lord Windermere?
PARKER. Yes,
madam. (Act 3)
4.
Falling
action
Lady Windermere returns to her family.
LADY WINDERMERE. [Holding out her hands to her, helplessly,
as a child might do.] Take me home.
Take me home.
MRS. ERLYNNE. … Where is your cloak? [Getting it from sofa.] Here. Put it on. Come at once!
5.
Denouement
Mrs. Erlynne tells to Lord Windermere that the fan of Lady Windermere
was brought by her.
MRS. ERLYNNE. …
Do you know, Lady Windermere, I am so
sorry about your fan. I can’t imagine how I made such a silly mistake …
The main conflict is located in the climax, Mrs. Erlynne found a letter
of Lady Windermere to Lord Windermere. Then, she went to Lord Darlington’s home
and asks Lady Windermere to go home. And in the climax, there is an hypocrisy of Mrs. Erlynne.
MRS. ERLYNNE “…You
don’t know what it is. One pays for one’s sin, and then one pays again, and all
one’s life one pays. You must never know that.—As for me, if suffering be an
expiation, then at this moment I have expiated all my faults, whatever they
have been; for to-night you have made a heart in one who had it not, made it
and broken it.—But let that pass. I may have wrecked my own life, but I will
not let you wreck yours. You—why, you are a mere girl, you would be lost. You
haven’t got the kind of brains that enables a woman to get back. You have
neither the wit nor the courage. You couldn’t stand dishonour! No! Go back,
Lady Windermere, to the husband who loves you, whom you love. You have a child,
Lady Windermere. Go back to that child who even now, in pain or in joy, may be
calling to you. [LADY WINDERMERE rises.] God gave you that child. He will
require from you that you make his life fine that you watch over him. What
answer will you make to God if his life is ruined through you? Back to your
house, Lady Windermere …”
There is hypocrisy about Mrs. Erlynne. She said to
Lady Windermere that mother must always stay with their children. But actually
in the past, Mrs. Erlynne left her children and her husband. Mrs. Erlynne is
hypocrite. In my opinion,
this is the main conflict in Lady Windermere’s fan.
D.
CONCLUSION
There are two impacts from hypocrisy of Mrs. Erlynne.
The first is impact to her daughter’s marriage and the second is impact to
herself. The first, she saves Lady Windermere’s marriage with say about that and
Lady Windermere wants to go home. The second is conflict about Mrs. Erlynne to
herself. It is the internal conflicts. She talks about sin “one pays for one’s sin”, she knows that what she does in the past
is a sin, and there is a fight in her mind. She wants to pay her sin in the
past with saves her daughter’s marriage. It is like maternal instinct, Mrs. Erlynne sacrifice her reputation
to saves her daughter’s marriage. And the effect of Mrs. Erlynne’s action is
Lady Windermere who in the beginning is hate Mrs. Erlynne, but in the end Lady
Windermere knows that Mrs. Erlynne is a good woman, although she did not know
that Mrs. Erlynne is her mother.
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