This week in the reading I read all about his views on human interaction and how all our interactions are pretty much comparable to the theatre....I don't like theatre that much so right off the bat I was a bit sceptical. Even after doing my group presentation on dramaturgy today I'm still not completely sure what I think of the whole dramaturgy theory...
Come to think of it I'm not all that sure I'd even call it a theory - he may not have called it a theory either, I can't remember. I would call it similar to the musings of a grade 7 student, I say that because his theory sounds similar to a few thoughts my friend (who was in grade 7) had one day. He came up to me and said "you know what? I reckon life is a bit like a car ride...you know? You kinda have your ups and downs cause you go up and down hills and then you go through some forest which is dark and you're not sure if you will ever get out but then you end up at the end and you finish the car ride and that's it...." To which I replied something along the lines of "yeah cool man...let's go and get something to eat". And I feel like if Goffman were telling me his theory on dramaturgy I'd tell him something similar.
That aside, I do see that some of his musings are worth a bit more of a look. His concept of maintaining expressive control was one that I see happening ALL of the time with people - myself included. Today I was walking along as normal when I stumbled...so what did I do? I just kept on walking as if nothing had happened. fool.
Keeping this to 285 words is so hard...that's now 309. and once again I didn't say a great deal.
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