what makes this plays significant and outstanding is that both reality and the appearance of reality are put into play on many different levels. Acting is therefore central to the maids in many different ways.adds many different layers
The play is a performance in many different ways. First of all this is a play written by genet the playwright to be performed and enacted by actresses and watched by the audience.
It doesn’t end here. The maids, just like other people in reality, are demanded to put on a daily performance society expects from them. Sociologist and Interaction theorist Erving Goffman has analyzed how each of us performs or acts one or more roles in everyday life.in his seminal sociology book “The presentation of self in everyday life”, published in 1959, which is the first book to treat face to face …show more content…
The core of Goffman analysis lies in relationship between performance and life. In his dramaturgical account of human interaction he argues that we display a series of masks to others, enacting roles controlling and staging how we appear. He essentially believes “We are all just actors trying to control and manage our public image, we act based on how others might see us.”(15) goffman seems to take all elements of acting into consideration. He uses performance “' to refer to all the activity of an individual which occurs during a period marked by his
The play is a performance in many different ways. First of all this is a play written by genet the playwright to be performed and enacted by actresses and watched by the audience.
It doesn’t end here. The maids, just like other people in reality, are demanded to put on a daily performance society expects from them. Sociologist and Interaction theorist Erving Goffman has analyzed how each of us performs or acts one or more roles in everyday life.in his seminal sociology book “The presentation of self in everyday life”, published in 1959, which is the first book to treat face to face …show more content…
The core of Goffman analysis lies in relationship between performance and life. In his dramaturgical account of human interaction he argues that we display a series of masks to others, enacting roles controlling and staging how we appear. He essentially believes “We are all just actors trying to control and manage our public image, we act based on how others might see us.”(15) goffman seems to take all elements of acting into consideration. He uses performance “' to refer to all the activity of an individual which occurs during a period marked by his