Day 47

I continued to look into the ideas behind dramturgy and this is what I came up with:

There are seven important elements Goffman identifies with respect to the "performance" an individual gives in presenting themselves:
in the part one is playing is important, even if it cannot be judged by others.

1. Belief The front or 'the mask' is a  technique for the performer to control the manner in which the audience perceives him or her.
2. Dramatic realization is a portrayal of aspects of the performer that s/he wants the audience to know.
3. idealization. Audiences often have an 'idea' of what a given situation (performance) should look like and performers will try to carry out the performance according to that idea^.
4. Maintenance of expressive control refers to the need to stay 'in character'. The performance has to make sure that s/he sends out the correct signals and quiets the occasional compulsion to convey misleading ones that might detract from the performance.
5. Misrepresentation refers to the danger of conveying a wrong message. The audience tends to think of a performance as genuine or false, and performers generally wish to avoid having an audience disbelieve them (whether they are being truly genuine or not).
6. Deception. refers to the concealment of certain information from the audience^.
   

This all goes back to what I have referred to as the single most important part in a survivor game. Perception. It is known that people will be scheming, but if you can control how others view YOUR scheming, then you will be infinitely ahead.

That is why I like to say how in SURVIVOR, perception is 9/10 of the law.