So in all this chaos of moving and trying to start afresh in county house, I was feeling really bummed out tonight because I've not done any 'school' work so I started reading on my dear friend Kenneth Burke and realized something. I totally could have used his dramatist theory to write my thesis.
How could I have missed this?
Conversation I'm having in my head with tired me and school me.
School me: Right.
Tired me: So like, he also had this theory about the study of rhetoric. That if we used rhetoric we could ultimately understand human behavior. Why we do what we do.
School me: What we do, what we do. Yup, that's correct.
Tired me: So he thought that we really were like performing on a stage. That's the whole idea behind the pentad. Its like this drama thing.
School me: Everybody plays the fool. No exception to the rule.
Tired me: So, what I could have looked at with my thesis, instead of the whole terministic screen thing (that I don't think I used in the way I should have, or could have done it differently), but anyways, what I could look at how relationships amongst audiences are created to divide the audiences.
School me: Your pretty smart.
Tired me: Well, no, see I was feeling guilty for not having read anything 'school' related and just reading blogs and stuff. So I forced myself to look at some Kenneth Burke articles. I've also found that not many people have looked at
School me: Maybe you should go to school
Tired me: Maybe sleep deprivation is the key.
School me: Lets go to bed.
Tired me: Agreed.
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