Literary Analysis: Empire Of Illusion By Chris Hedgess

The passage “Empire of illusion” by Chris Hedges claims that the most essential skill in political theater and a consumer is artifice. In every position you have to have a responsibility that is to be honest and go by what you think but in theater they want you to artifice narratives. The personal narrative can be fake but what is the meaning or truth behind it? I think they make artifice narratives for their own benefit which may or may not bring consequences further on in the future. This can become a problem to the personal narrative in the form that when they get interviewed on their personal narrative they would not know how to express themselves about it because there is no main intention and can not say what was an actual inspiration they experienced in order to be inspired.Usually the reality of the narrative is irrelevant because of the qualities given in order to achieve a personal narrative for the same fact that they see consequences they may not be wanting to face so they tell narratives to write something that is irrelevant to them.

In addition a personal narrative needs to be written with sincere or honesty. A narrative is based on you and who you are and where you stand which makes sense because it also explains the development of your ideas. In the passage it says it says that …show more content…
There are other ways to get into writing a personal narrative and being sincere and honest about what you are personally talking about. For example if you know that there is going to be a cause on your personal narrative in the future would you still write a personal narrative that is artifice? It is appealing to me that people who are interested in writing personal narratives have to come to this kind of situation on where an author like Hedges thinks and advises writers to make their narrative