Definition of sincere performances

Goffman describes sincere performances by saying, ‘the performer can be fully taken in by his own act; he can be sincerely convinced that the impression of reality which he stages is the real reality” (17). The 2 questions you must answer are below. Identify a “role’ that you perform in your everyday life and describe the front that you use to perform that role. What is the setting and what kind of personal front do you use to perform that role? Explain how that front (both the setting and the personal front) helps you effectively perform that role. Quote Goffman at least once to support your answer.2. Goffman talks about how performances exist on a spectrum from cynical to sincere, and he gives several examples of people whose performances changed over time. Discuss a time when your own performance went from sincere to cynical or from cynical to sincere.lt can be a change that happened slowly, over a long period of time or something that happened over the course of a single day. Explain why and how the change happened. Quote Goffman at least once to support your answer.

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