Fantasies provide an escape from the daily hassles of life. When one thinks of a fantasy, one may conjure up things like unicorns flying in the wind, elves dancing around a Christmas tree, or like the poem expresses, touching dragonflies and stars. All incidences are unreal, imaginative. Ernest Bormann, however, had another perspective on fantasy altogether. Fantasy is dimensionally acquired through dramatization and rhetorical vision. “Rhetorical vison is considered to be construction of a groups world view”. Once engaged in the fantasy, the theme itself creates a cohesiveness within the group. He incorporated fantasy themes into his theory called symbolic convergence theory, which involves “sharing group fantasies that create symbolic
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Its characters are identifiable through dramatic convergence. They however, convey their feelings of discontent and disarray in different ways, using different symbols to communicate their feelings. The symbols, no matter how unique to the individual, is familiar to the others in the group. In the Breakfast Club depicts a group of classmates that eventually unite and become one though their similar experiences. As expressed by gomenao, “Their fantasy is created as each and every member embraces the group dramatization message where “the creative and imaginative shared interpretation of events fulfills the group’s psychological or rhetorical …show more content…
Sequence of events of social convergence theory. Reprinted from Symbolic Convergence Theory, In Better Communication Results may 31, 2001, Retrieved May 1, 2016, from http://www.leehopkins.net/2011/05/31/symbolic-convergence-theory/
An example of the, according to greejw12 (2014), “heightened group cohesiveness-members attracted to each other and sticking together through thick and thin” can be found in the classic movie The Breakfast Club, in which a group of high school students, all examples of different teenage stereotypes, begin sharing their life struggles and slowly become more comfortable with each other. The Breakfast Club, a movie written and directed The movie by John Hughes is the story of a jock, a nerd, a juvenile delinquent, a rich, popular girl, and a weird girl who transcend their respective stereotypes and learn to get along. The Saturday morning of detention stimulated a brew of symbolic concoctions. These concoctions created an emergence of events that lead to establishment of commonalties within the group. We can see many instances of dramatization occurring within the group as they express their troubles in the past and the worry over their futures. The group comes to realize that despite their different social statuses, they still share a common link. This link becomes more and more intertwined as the movie progresses, forming a strong bond between each character. Each character symbolizes individualized and unique qualities. But when forced
Its characters are identifiable through dramatic convergence. They however, convey their feelings of discontent and disarray in different ways, using different symbols to communicate their feelings. The symbols, no matter how unique to the individual, is familiar to the others in the group. In the Breakfast Club depicts a group of classmates that eventually unite and become one though their similar experiences. As expressed by gomenao, “Their fantasy is created as each and every member embraces the group dramatization message where “the creative and imaginative shared interpretation of events fulfills the group’s psychological or rhetorical …show more content…
Sequence of events of social convergence theory. Reprinted from Symbolic Convergence Theory, In Better Communication Results may 31, 2001, Retrieved May 1, 2016, from http://www.leehopkins.net/2011/05/31/symbolic-convergence-theory/
An example of the, according to greejw12 (2014), “heightened group cohesiveness-members attracted to each other and sticking together through thick and thin” can be found in the classic movie The Breakfast Club, in which a group of high school students, all examples of different teenage stereotypes, begin sharing their life struggles and slowly become more comfortable with each other. The Breakfast Club, a movie written and directed The movie by John Hughes is the story of a jock, a nerd, a juvenile delinquent, a rich, popular girl, and a weird girl who transcend their respective stereotypes and learn to get along. The Saturday morning of detention stimulated a brew of symbolic concoctions. These concoctions created an emergence of events that lead to establishment of commonalties within the group. We can see many instances of dramatization occurring within the group as they express their troubles in the past and the worry over their futures. The group comes to realize that despite their different social statuses, they still share a common link. This link becomes more and more intertwined as the movie progresses, forming a strong bond between each character. Each character symbolizes individualized and unique qualities. But when forced