Erving Goffm A Metaphor Of Theatre

Erving Goffman developed a metaphor of theater to explain the social interaction with different forms of behavior on front and back stages. Front stage is the area of social interaction visible to the audience, and back stage is the social interaction not visible to the audience. Front stage is a behavior that we do when other people are watching or are aware of us. Being in this front stage behavior, we focus on how others view us and what they expect from us, which can drive the behavior all together. How others view us shapes what we say in social settings, what we dress up like, and our created norm behavior. This is just like how actors in a play when on stage create this character that the audience sees and learns to make judgments on