Dramaturgy_Theory

Dramaturgy Theory Running Head: Dramaturgy: Life as a Stage and we the Ultimate Actors Dramaturgy: Life as a Stage and we the Ultimate Actors Introduction In the extremely patriarchal society in which we live in it is very hard to delineate the standards by which men are considered to fit the perfect All-American male model. We as components of this winding society often set the standards for what fits and what does not fit our expectations. I recently met a friend whom I tutored named Sergio, and he showed me many times that it is important to be able to play in this great game we know as life. Time and time again I was looking at the ingenious tactics that this great person used to get by many situations in which his level of knowledge was questioned because of his lack of higher education. The whole time period that I was close to this individual I was taught that sometimes we are just actors in a huge ongoing stage. We are actors that manipulate situations in order for us to get the upper hand in the situation in question. It made me realize that many times I had acted in a certain way so stage, sergio, life, people, very, school, one, although, way, time, theory, society, situations, person, man, front, everyone, times, show, own, order, made, know, himself, great, friends, college, act, help, goffman, certain, being, because, back, 2002