Drama plot definition

The plot in the drama is the course of events in the drama that continues until the drama is finished.
The plot in the play has a very important position. This is related to the modeling pattern in the play
of the drama, and is the basis for the rhythmic structure of the whole course of the drama
performance. Plots can be divided by chapters and scenes or go on without division. So, the plot in
staging a drama is a series of drama events that occur on stage.

In a more specific sense, the plot in the drama is not just a series of events contained in the topic but
includes several factors that cause events to occur. In this context, building a plot becomes
something very complex. It is not only seen from the course of an event, but further it needs to be
analyzed how the urgency of the events that arose is able to build a tension or character conflict.

Example: “FROM THE SCREEN WINDOW TWO MASKS APPEARED AND ARRESTED THE DALANG-
GENERAL AND HIS SUBSCRIBE COMES WHILE SCREAMING. THE DIALOGUE IS THE SAME AS WHAT
PREVIOUSLY SAYED (in the first half).
THEY ARE TRYING TO HELP THE DALANG AWAY FROM THE GRAPHY OF THE WATCHTOWER. Heard a
voice screaming "
Here there is a chronological relationship between the first event and the next which makes it a
series that is so interrelated, so that the reader understands that the sequence of sentences that
discuss these events is presented chronologically.

Kinds of Plot Drama

When we watch or see a drama performance consciously or unconsciously, our emotions will be
affected by what we watch. These emotions arise because they are influenced by the fabric of
events and the course of the story written by the author. The chain of events and the course of the
story is what is meant by plot. Plot of drama varies in many ways depending on the playwright
playing with our emotions. In simple terms, plots can be divided into two, namely simple plots
(simple plots) and multi plots (plots that are more than one).

a. Simple Plot
Simple plot or a simple drama plot is a drama that has one story plot and one conflict that
moves from beginning to end. This simple plot consists of linear and linear-circular plots. Linear plot
is a story plot from the beginning to the end of the story moving in a straight line, while linear-
circular is a story plot from beginning to end moving in a straight circle so that the beginning and end
of the story will meet at one point. This linear plot can still be subdivided according to the emotional
nature of this linear plot, consisting of an ascending or rising plot, a decreasing or falling plot, a
progressive plot, a backward plot or a regressive plot, a straight plot or a straight plot. plots, and
circular plots. The ascending plot or rising plot is a plot with drama emotions starting from the
lowest emotional level to the highest emotional level of drama. This plot is the most common plot in
a drama plot. A falling plot is a plot with drama emotions starting from the highest emotional level to
the lowest emotional level of drama. This plot is the opposite of an uphill plot or a rising plot. A
progressive plot is a story plot that starts from the exposure of drama events to the core of drama
events. The storyline in the drama moves from start to finish without any flashbacks. A regressive
plot is a story plot that starts from the core of the story and then explains how the event happened.
This plot is the opposite of the progressive plot.
b. Multi Plot
Multi plot is a drama that has one main plot with several sub-plots that are continuous. This
multi plot consists of two types, namely the episode or episodic plot and the concentric plot. Episode
plot or episodic plot is a story plot that consists of parts independently, where each episode has its
own story plot. Every episode in the drama actually has no causal relationship in a series of stories,
themes, characters. But at the end of the story the plot of the story which consists of these episodes
will meet. Concentric plot is a drama story that has several stand-alone plots, where at the end of
the story all the characters involved in the separate story finally come together to finish the story.
The plots in the story have problems that must be resolved.

Example of a drama plot

The plot functions as the organizer of all parts of the game, the main supervisor where a scriptwriter
can determine how to organize the other five parts, namely: characters, themes, diction, music, and
spectacles. Plot also serves as the basic building block in a play and the overall command of the
whole practice as well as all parts of the reality of the drama and the most important and central
part of the drama.
Sayuti (2000) in Wiyatni (2006: 37) also states that the plot has a number of rules, namely
plausibility, surprise, suspense, unity. The plot of which a series of events is plausibly structured
although it makes sense here remains in a fictional framework. With a surprise, the series of events
becomes interesting.
Example: “DALANG CHANGES ROLES AND PLAYING THE ROLE OF HANSIP NIGHT RIGHTS”.
In addition, the shock also serves to slow down or speed up the climax. The climax appears in an
unexpected event.
Example: “TURNING THOUGHT TO HELP HIS ASSEMBLY HITING THE SCREEN. THE SHADOWS BEHIND
THE SCREEN FALLING. BUT THEN A GIANT WAYANG SOSOK SHADOW Appear. THE GENERAL AND HIS
SUPREME SUBSCRIBED, FEAR WAS DIRECTLY WEDDING ”.
The surprise has implications for the next plot, namely the next event. Suspense (uncertainty of
expectation) arises when a series of events related to previous events are suddenly diverted to other
unrelated events, so that the continuation of these events is delayed and experiences uncertainty.

Example: The first half tells the story of a general and his aides who are suddenly bugged by the
shadow of a giant puppet, reversed to another incident that is not related to the second half about
Soekarno and someone talking about Indonesia then the puppeteer appears and at the end of the
second act another giant puppet appears which ambushes the puppeteer and the general and his
aides appeared to help remove the mastermind from the giant.

Wiyatmi (2006: 39) states that a series of events contained in a work are required to have integrity
(Iunity). The existence of a beginning, middle, and end in a plot indicates this integrity. Concretely,
the picture about the intensity of the plot is seen when the audience is “trapped” in various events
from the beginning, middle, and end of the drama. The audience will feel the emergence of one
conflict to various conflicts and go from crisis to crisis, both when tensions arise and during
relaxation.