I think the first thing to point out with my question is to answer it with another question; can a concept be personally constructed? I would say yes. When someone takes into account a play the first thing one must do is look at the script. Once they have analyzed the script, they then have a concept of what the play is. This aspect, especially for anyone who has seen two productions of the same play, can tell that, no matter what, they are both going to be different. This I think serves as a good analogy then. The script is our sensory impression of the world and the way we go about creating the play would be our past experiences and thoughts on the particular script (world), thus resulting in different productions (views of reality). Someone could feel very different about Romeo and Juliet than another (almost getting back into a view on aesthetic judgement).
Keeping with this theater analogy, if a new script is written then a new vision/concept of the play will need to be brought up, or at least will eventually come into being once someone reads it. It is then that a concept must originally be thought up by someone, to which it is personally constructed (you could say it was developed by the playwright, but someone like Ibsen wrote and directed his works). This concept is then either accepted as agreeable or disliked by the view of others. Maybe this is why RC doesn't seem coherent at times, because if its only something you can "construct" or conceptualize what good is it doing? Realists can at least validate with one another to a degree.
If you were to try and copy a production, or replicate it, I do not think it would ever be as good as the original. Since the concept of the original production was conceived through the views of those involved, it would fall short in some aspect. This is the same with a concept of reality, since it was not brought upon by yourself how could you ever understand what the person was really thinking/conceptualizing? To this end, I would say that a personally constructed concept is stronger than those of others. This is not to say you can not learn from others, for inquiry is apart of finding truth. If you are closed off you will never find the connections that are surrounding you. You can copy a few things you've liked from a past production (philosophy) and make it your own, but a total reproduction would never live up to its predecessor. Someone's conception may not correlate to another person's own concept, but to have experienced that will only build your own ideas stronger.
- A side note, I may be trying to correlate what we learn in class with theater because this is what interests me. I think it should interest you, the reader, to some degree too, for theater is constructing reality.
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