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In the late 1970s, literary critic Kenneth Burke postulated an interpretive critical method to help explain the intricacies behind human relations and the motives involved in all spheres of society. Commonly referred as dramatism, Burke claims that life, as any captivating film or theatre, is heavily dependent on dramatization in the process of motivating audiences into actions. Closely linked to one of Shakespeare’s acclaimed theatrical texts that reads “all the world is a stage / and all the men and women are merely players,” Burke suggests that the world as we know it functions as a metaphorical stage where humans are actors, writers, directors, and audiences simultaneously—that is, life is not a drama, but rather life is a drama. This

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