A key rule of theatre is that the King is never played by the actor playing the King, but by all the other actors around him.
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A key rule of theatre is that the King is never played by the actor playing the King, but by all the other actors around him.
This theatre analogy is not perfect. Unlike human actors, chatbots are not physically present. They do not make conscious choices about how to portray characters or co-construct meaning with their audience. Nevertheless, this framework is useful because it clarifies and accentuates the relation between chatbots and the deceased. Actors are neither ... See more
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role theory, a concept that argues that our everyday activities are merely roles that we act out as characters in the social world.
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He’s a star. In other words, the power of the protagonist derives directly from the power of the theme and the concept.
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it always led to the customer and
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Imagine a cast as a kind of solar system with the protagonist as the sun, supporting roles as planets around the sun, bit players as satellites around the planets