The Representation Of Theater In Gorlman's Dramaturgical Theory Goffman

In this essay, the author

• Explains that goffman breaks the theatrical representation of life down into two different regions: the front stage and the backstage.
• Explains that there is a hidden or private stage where individuals can be themselves and set aside their role or identity in society. when we are no longer acquired to be in social environment, we leave the front stage.
• Opines that solange liked the garret because it was plain and didn't have to put on a show.

• Explains that goffman breaks the theatrical representation of life down into two different regions: the front stage and the backstage.
• Explains that there is a hidden or private stage where individuals can be themselves and set aside their role or identity in society. when we are no longer acquired to be in social environment, we leave the front stage.
• Opines that solange liked the garret because it was plain and didn't have to put on a show.
• Analyzes how the sisters are at play within realistic roles within a dramaturgy and aesthetic that puts what is real into play. the play is an invented front stage performed in the backstage.
• Analyzes how the play opens with the fantasies of the maid servants performed on................. when the alarm goes off, solange and claire "tidy up" on madame's bed.
• Explains that each of the characters plays not ony herself, but also at least one other role. the sisters move between four performance registers.
• Analyzes how the maids is an extremely challenging play, with poignant articulations of love, distorted by the cliches which express and imprison them.
• Explains that the ceremony, like acting, is a game which is always the same, but different. claire and solange always play it to the hilt.
• Describes the ritualistic act of two maids who create separation between themselves and the assigned role, but get trapped in another. alienated from the real world by social prejudices, they escape their tawdry existence by playing a game.
• Opines that some french intellectuals championed "the maids" when it first opened in paris.
• Analyzes how jean genet transmits to his thought an increasingly rapid circular movement. he has a vision of an infinitely rapid rotation which merges the poles of appearance and reality.
• Analyzes how genet's play the maids is about masks, role-playing, and the elusive quality of identity. it uses the banal protocols of domestic servitude to dramatize the interdependent way in which we are perceived and treated by others.