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  • Casanova’s Facade

    • May 30, 2020
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    The surface Casanova presents to outsiders is one of supreme confidence.  The audience understands from the beginning that this is only partly true.  The conflict between this public persona and private reality adds interest in a couple of ways.  Firstly, in how it will play out.  To what extent will the inconsistencies and contradictions reveal
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  • Fiction v fact (Part 2)

    • May 9, 2020
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    There is a danger of sometimes regarding fact and fiction as opposites: facts are true and fiction is made up.  On a trivial level this is the case.  Fiction, however, can embody truths as well as facts. It is possible for something to be fictional in one sense but to be true in another and
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  • Sympathy

    • April 26, 2020
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      Creators can dynamically influence the sympathy that the audience feels for characters as the story unfolds rather than simply establish one dominant attitude that remains unvarying.  Such shifting opinions will more closely reflect our real-life experience of others.  Very rarely will we have a single emotional response to an individual over time.  It is
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