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1.Summary

Goffman's dramaturgical theory has been applied to various social phenomena, including social movements, online identity construction, and theatrical performances.

2.Discussion

The pursuit of essence is human beings' superficial understanding of things, and the pursuit of differences is human beings' deep understanding of things. Essence can be applied and labeled. It is a superficial understanding of things and is the process of people's understanding of the world. Lazy means. It is believed that as long as you master the essence of things, you have mastered everything about them, that is, you can transform cognition into action. Therefore, I believe that constructing essence is the first step to understand things, and constructing differences is the most important thing to understand things. People should construct their understanding of differences by constructing essence.

Whether it is playing games, reading novels, getting drunk, or skydiving, all kinds of entertainment activities are designed to make people enter a state of intoxication and obtain a special aesthetic feeling.

However, different aesthetic activities will produce different aesthetic feelings. When facing some grand things, people will feel numb on the scalp. When facing some subtle emotions, especially those related to their own experience, people will often feel... Tears welled up in the eyes. At the end of a rich aesthetic activity, people will always feel the emptiness in their hearts.

When Foucault was conducting linguistic archaeological research, he found that people began to face "madmen" with a critical attitude in the 17th century. However, is the period and century here the standard of the West or the world?

 (In Shakespeare's plays during the Renaissance, the protagonist in the four major tragedies often eventually became a madman, which means that he has found the truth in the world; "Don Quixote" and "Raise the Red Lantern"; however, in literary works, for madmen Does the affirmation of real society mean the affirmation of madmen?)


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  1. CHENG SHIYIMay 18, 2024 at 3:34 AM

    The discussion of essence vs. difference is very interesting, but I think it could be expanded on further. For example: why is the pursuit of difference considered to be a profound realization of things? Examples could be given, e.g.: how the process of recognizing from essence to difference is manifested in social movements or online identity construction, could make the discussion more concrete or compelling.

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