UNIVERSITY OF CAGAYAN VALLEY

Tuguegarao City, Cagayan

SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AND TEACHER EDUCATION
PRELIM ASSIGNMENT NO. 3

Name of Student: Miguel Ligutan

Year/Section: BSEE - 5

TASK: Plot the Short Story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by completing all the
needed details below.

A. Exposition: The emperor had a different robe for every hour of every day.
B. Rising Action: the emperor gets weavers to make him a magic robe
C. Climax: the weavers fool the emperor by making him nothing. He goes in to his
parade in his underwear thinking he had a magic robe that only wise men could see
and fools cannot
D. Falling Action: the emperor was fooled and he had nothing else to do but carry on
with his parade.
E. Resolution: the emperor is left as a fool and the weavers ran off with their 40 bags
of gold. gay as can be. 
F. Themes: The central theme of Hans Christian Andersen's story of the Emperor's
new clothes is that illusion depends at least in part on self-deception on the part of
those being deceived.
G. Morals/Lessons: The moral, or message, of this tale is that we must not let pride or
fear keep us from speaking up. Another moral is that children speak the truth when no
one else will. This story shows the importance of proof in the form of empirical data,
which is evidence that can be observed through the senses.