Analisis setting, characters, plot, conflict, point of

view, dan theme ‘The Robbers’

1. Setting

Place : Andrew Chirikov’s inn.

Time :

 One evening before Christmas

 A year and a half passed in one spring night.

Atmosphere : feeling that is created at the beginning in the story is dibble.

2. Character

Protagonist : Liubka andErgunov

Antagonist : Merik and Filia (Peasants)

Major : Ergunov, Liubka, Merik, Kalashnikov

Minor : Andrew Grogorich, Fillia, Kalashnikov’s father and uncle, Old Woman.

3. Plot

Introduction :
When he lost his way and he found an inn and then he entered in it.

Rising action :
When the doctor looked for his horse and he thought that his horse had lost.

Climax :
When the doctor didn’t found his horse, then he looked for Liubka and met her (Doctor seized the
neck of Liubka’s chemise and tore, then he caught Liubka in his arm.Liubka slipped out of his
embrance and struck him on the head with her fist.)

Falling action :
In the morning after all happened to the doctor at the inn last night, when he tought about freedom
and want to be free, too.

Resolution :
The doctor dismissed from the hospital (without wore), and he come out a saloon in Repin wandered
aimless down the street and out into the open country.

4. Conflict

In this story, there are 4 kinds of conflict

 Human vs Social
Human VS Social is occurring when the doctor thought about people’s habitualsuch as why
the one must get up in the morning, have dinner at noon, and go to bed at night?
 Human vs Human
Human VS Human is occurring when the doctor and Liubka were quarreled after the doctor
realized his horse was lost.
 Human vs Natural
Human VS Natural is occurring when the doctor lost his way in a violent snowstorm in his
journey to Repin.
  Human vs Self
Human VS Self is occurring when the doctor wants being free and got a freedom.

5. Point of View

Writer use Omniscient point of view, because the writer know all about of the storysuch as the writer
knew that Ergunov is the doctor’s assistant, then the writer knew that Ergunovwas returning from the
hamlet of Repin in one evening before Christmas, etc. The second reason is the story use pronun He,
She, Her, His, and They.

6. Theme

We must have freedom in our life; Freedom is one of the important part for our life.

CONCLUSION

Indeed, this story tells about a man of frivolous character who had the reputation in the district of a
windbag and a great drinker, but after all had happened to him at an inn in the winter’s night a year
ago. When he went to his home, but in the middle of road there is snowstorm he cannot toward to his
home. So, he and a hours is that brought by him stopover in the an inn. In the inn he saw the free
people that their life are not depend on the others people, they can do what that they want without
must feel is not free from the others. After that, he go out from his job and try to undergone his life by
his self. From this story, we can get the point that we can make our life more interesting by our way so
that we can feel our life more have meaningful.