Erving Goffman Theory

In the theory “Performances” by Erving Goffman utilizes the expression “performance” to allude all the movement of a person before a specific group of people, or onlookers. These specific performances convey impressions to others. People act a certain way with an expectation in controlling the part that they play with the end goal of overseeing others impressions of them. Generally, this happens through the collaboration of the people in their regular life. In these theory, Goffman is basically stating that something individuals need to do in their relationship with others is to present themselves as a likeable and acceptable individual. Individuals dependably put a front on when acquainted with distinctive or new individuals. Goffman labeled …show more content…
However, he discovers that her strict father is expecting him to request his daughters hand in marriage before she can even accept him. Goffman stated that “When an individual plays a part he implicitly requests his observers to take seriously the impression that is fostered before them. They are asked to believe that the character they see actually possess the attributes he appears to possess, that the task he performs will have the consequences that are implicitly claimed for it, and that, in general, matters are what they appear to be” (Erving Goffman 257). In this case everything goes wrong for Greg (the daughter’s boyfriend) by trying to be someone he is not. He tries so hard to impress his girlfriend’s father however every time he tries to impress him, Jack (future father in law) puts him down. Since upon him arriving in the family’s home, Greg is welcomed by what seems to be the perfect family. In any case, for a gentleman who normally depends on dry mind in distressing circumstances, Greg is abruptly firing off duds with Jack. First of all, nobody is adequate for Jack’s first born, and the way that Greg is not just a nurse but also dislikes cats (and her family loves cats) and has a ridiculous last name is not helping thing out at all. While Greg is trying his best in every way possible …show more content…
This film is an entertaining take a gander at how a man tries to fit into a family that is altogether very much different than he is. So he puts this front to be someone he is not just to be likeable by his fiancé’s family, which I imagine that every single one of us have been in Greg’s circumstances at some point in our lives. Greg appeared to invest a considerable measure of energy attempting to make sense of what the family anticipated that he would do and attempting to be what he thought they needed him to be. That in the end, I believe that to some degree Greg’s grand effort to fit in actually brought on more