Stanislavski's principle theory of acting was that of psychological realism.
Stanislavski's principle theory of acting was that of psychological realism. In other words, acting should be an art that teaches an actor how to consciously produce natural action; it must teach the actor "how to awaken consciously her subconscious creative self for its super conscious organic creativeness," and how to consciously create action that is usually subconsciously expressed as a result of conscious thought. He discovered that there is no inner experience without outer physical expression, but if an actor on stage performs only physical actions, this violates the psycho-physical union and her performance is mechanical and dead. Therefore Stanislavski protested against "mechanical" acting, exploitation of art, bathos, the art of representation, "theatricality" and the "star" system, and aimed to create a real, artistic, scenic truth by examining the psychological aspects of life by manipulating the subconscious via conscious physical action. This would ensure believability, not only for the actor but for the audience too. In order to prepare an actor for a role so that it relates back to these concepts, Stanislavski developed a number of rehearsal and performance techniques such as imagination, units and objectives and emotion memory. These techniques were designed in order to help an actor awaken her consciences, and eventually achieve psycho-physical involvement.
Discuss how meaning develops through particular style and imagery in TWO of Harwood's poems.
Discuss how meaning develops through particular style and imagery in TWO of Harwood's poems. Imagery stimulates particular emotions whilst the elements of style can influence the way a text is organised. Gwen Harwood often uses particular style and imagery to develop meaning. In Harwood's philosophical reflections, "Barn Owl" and "Spelling Prize" particular style and imagery are used to offer the reader a seemingly simple, yet powerful meaning. Memory is a strong notion in both of these poems as it is linked to ideas about immortality. The force and impact of memory and movement from innocence to maturity are explored and developed in these poems through particular style and imagery. "Spelling Prize" uses a particular element of style to immediately develop meaning. In the first stanza, the syntax and stanza structure is manipulated significantly. This poem deals with the persona's first experience with death. The persona, as a child, is at her friend's house and sees the brutal death of a calf. It is this memory that has a great impact on her life and her actions thereafter, in the poem, are influenced significantly. Most of Harwood's poems consist of controlled stanzas. However, this first stanza is not as formal because the persona is recapturing and establishing the associated and influential memory. The contrast between the uncontrolled structure of the first stanza
Another group skill that definitely contributed to the development of 'After Abigail' was our collective vocal skills. Many of the members of our group were skilful musicians and this aided dramatically in our attempt at re-creating music
Amy Steptoe 13GR How did group skills contribute to the development of the drama? Our cast for 'After Abigail' consisted of nine people, which immediately had advantages and disadvantages. Firstly, although each member of the group had a lot of individual ideas, it was occasionally difficult to work on each and every one of them, due to us having to deal with such a large group, thus a large number of ideas. Although this at times resulted in a conflict of ideas, we attempted to utilise this to our advantage, making sure to avoid that people weren't underused of their individual skills. We achieved this successfully as each person was used to their full advantage, as each individual brought a new skill to the group, and an accumulation of these skills resulted in a very effective development of the drama. Working in such a large group, it was sometimes difficult to use each and every lesson fully; therefore in order to ensure our time was used best, we split into different groups. Once we had decided on the plot, we realized that each scene apart from one consisted usually of only two or three people maximum. Thus, we were able to split up into these smaller groups, for example I usually worked with my teacher Mr. Daniel Craig or my mother, Susan as generally my scenes revolved around those two characters. As we were able to do this, we refrained from wasting time, and
Linking Freudian and Jungian psychology to elements of cultural studies, conceive a useful model that describes a triangular relationship between individuals, the media and some form of collective consciousness.
Contents Introduction 2 The Unconscious 2 .1 Freud 3 .2 Jung 4 .2.1 The personal unconscious 4 .2.2 The collective unconscious and the Archetypes 4 2 Media Driven Consciousness 6 3 Global Consciousness ? 8 3.1 Global consciousness as a placebo? 9 4 Unfolding Perspective 11 5 Consequences 12 Bibliography 14 Introduction Remember The Borg, in the STAR TREK series? They were an assimilating species with a collective consciousness. They functioned as One entity, each part hearing the others, like a thousand voices speaking at once.
Review the novel's major theme-affect of the past, incidents building up to affect out personality development - Margaret Mahy's novel, "Memory".
ESSAY Topic: Review the novel's major theme-affect of the past, incidents building up to affect out personality development. In Margaret Mahy's novel, "Memory", almost all of the characters are slowly, but gradually building up their personality through a search of their hazy pasts. These hazy pasts include the incidents, which influence the personality development and therefore provide the characters with their answers, but for them to find these answers they must seek in the present. Jonny, being the main character, has the most disarrayed past, through which he must physically sort out, in order for him to gain his full personality. In the same sense, Bonny, Sophie and Hinerangi must also discover their personality through near-forgotten events. At the beginning of the novel, Jonny is making his way towards the Benedicta's residence. He is doing this because he wants to find Bonny Benedicta, who was with him at the time of his sister's death. Jonny wants to ask Bonny about the time, when she saw his sister fall from the cliff, as he was unclear, if he pushed her accidentally. Jonny believes that he did push his sister and now says that he should have been the one to go over. He goes through many critical and memorable moments and finally meets up with Bonny. He then learns the truth of his belief. His character becomes dispersed as Bonny says, "But she tripped. She
Leaving and Arriving - Grace - The development of a piece of drama about a young girl and her mother leaving Jamaica and arriving in a racist Britain in the 1950's
The development of a piece of drama about a young girl and her mother leaving Jamaica and arriving in a racist Britain in the 1950's Introduction: W e were introduced to a character, a black character that has left home known by the name of Grace. This is all we knew. It was up to us as individuals and small groups to develop Grace and her history as we interpreted it. We worked in small groups of six members and over a period of three sessions we developed our character. Our key objective which was set as part of the task was that we would show our exploration of her history as memory flashbacks. This applied for all who took part in this activity. All members of our group originated from an Asian ethnic minority situated within the east end of London. Living as part of a minority within the multicultural city of London we have also encountered racism as did our parents. This provided the key element which we were going to use to base our whole story around. Another advantage for us was that our parents and relatives had also migrated from their homeland in search for work during the period of civil war leading to the independence of our homeland of Bangladesh. This meant that by conducting interviews with the various members of our family would help us unlock key information which would help us developing the ideas and feelings we thought that a person in such a state
Current and Past Drugs
Current and Past Drug Trends Bradley Jordan 425 July 17, 2010 Dawn Weldon Current and Past Drug Trends The current and past drugs trends in the United States are significant to society. The use of drugs affects citizens across the nation, whether using drugs or not using drugs. The strength of each drug potentially could help people with severe pains, mild pains, psychological problems, and addiction. However, the same drugs could destroy people lives, murder, and create a financial burden for citizens living in United States. As the world turns and times seems difficult, people will use different avenues to promote their product. The American people will encourage drug use in any form of advertisement. People in today's society have accepted this part of history. Past Drug Trends: Marijuana, Amphetamine, Cocaine, LSD, Opiates The history of drugs in United States dates back to the early 1600s with the settlers of Jamestown. Settlers began growing hemp plant or cannabis sativa because of the strong fiber it produced. The plants were so strong that settlers made clothes, sails, and rope. The United States main source of revenue was marijuana, which typically only lasted through the duration of the Civil War. Plantation flourished across the nation in states such as California, Georgia, Mississippi, Nebraska, and South Carolina. Marijuana use grew rapidly throughout the
Exam paper
Psychology exam paper questions a. Explain the terms Social influence and majority influence? 3+3 marks Social influence means the influence of a group (majority influence) or individual (minority influence) to modify thinking, attitudes, and/or behaviour of others, example fashion trends are consequences of majority influence, while political and religious leaders are example of minority influence, while the authority figure is an example of obedience. Majority influence, this occurs when people adopt behaviour, attitudes, or values of the majority (dominant or largest groups) after being exposed to their values or behaviour. In this sense they publicly yield to group pressure, although in some cases they yield privately. The majority is able to influence because of other people's desire to be accepted on their desire to be right. There are two types of majority influence, normative and informational, normative meaning, where an individual wants to fit in with the majority members of the group, while informative means where we look to others for the right answer or for appropriate behaviour. b. Describe the aims and procedures of one study of conformity. (3+3 marks) Asch study's: the aim was to determine whether a majority can influence the minority even when the situation is unambiguous. Asch aimed to find out if it is effects of majority influence that had
Personality Psychology
Jeradine Young Personality Psychology May 30, 2006 Introduction The field of personality psychology is flourishing. In many respects the current aspects of the field reflects important shifts, both methodological and conceptual, that have occurred over the past two decades. Some of these changes arose in response to conceptual crises within the field, particularly the Great Trait Debate that occupied much of the field in the seventies. Other shifts reflect the gradual maturing of intellectual agendas that were present at the modern inception of academic personality psychology in the nineteen thirties (Craik, 1986). Personality Psychology Personality psychology is the scientific discipline that studies the personality system. The discipline seeks to understand a person's major psychological patterns and how those patterns are expressed in an individual's life. Personality psychologists conduct scientific research on personality, teach about personality (usually at the college and university level) and participate in the broader discipline of psychology (Phares, 1991). Personality psychology studies how psychological systems work together. The field can act as a unifying resource for the broader discipline of psychology. Yet, personality's current field-wide organization promotes a fragmented view of the person, seen through such competing theories as the
Outline and evaluate the psychodynamic model of abnormality.
Outline and evaluate the psychodynamic model of abnormality. One of the most difficult tasks for those working within the field of psychology is to define abnormality. However, it is possible to try and define abnormality by using a range of models to help us, the psychodynamic model being one of them. It was Freud who developed the concept of the psychodynamic approach. The idea behind this was to use 'talking therapy' to bring past memories from the unconscious to the conscious. The unconscious is when you are doing or thinking something without being alert or aware that you are doing it. Along the idea of the unconscious Freud also developed the concept of the ID, the Ego and the Superego. The id is described as an impulsive, selfish side to our personality which is ruled by a pleasure principle, the superego is the moral part of our personality which recognises right from wrong; and our ego is the part of our mind which tries to rationalise and arbitrate both sides of our thoughts. Freud believed that there were two main causes of abnormality in general. One of these was childhood traumas and the idea that a bad memory from our childhood is so traumatic that it buries itself in our subconscious. This is what is believed to cause problems later on in our adult life. The second cause was the concept that our mind has not learned to rationalise our id and our superego, and
