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Show 79 THIRD AIM: EMOTION "When I was a boy," or mother's "When I was a girl." Their whole nature is in prospect, not retrospect. Incite Emotion. Emotion is catching, so is the absence of it. There must be freedom to feel and liberty to express in the class The teacher must feel and express, and thereby stimulate the pupil to enjoy the sense of feeling inside the classroom as well room. There should be a heavy penalty laid upon all pupils laugh at another's expression of emotion. The pupil who "feels funny" when he is in an oral expression class' when trying to be thrilled with the feeling of the author, should be helped to abandon himself so that he may enjoy experiencing these emotions. Here is the place to be sure that the imagination is working. as outside. who To Feel particularly who or There is a fallacious belief current professional readers, that the artist technique does not have to feel his part. among actors and has learned his There has been or Not to Feel. not to feel. a great deal said and written on whether to feel It is contended that deep emotion will wear .out the physically. If the brain grows through use, if the body develops by activity, why should not the power to. feel and to experience be subject to the same rule? The law of life is that growth comes only through expenditure of energy. There is real joy, real satisfaction in emotional-mental-bodily-creation, which will compensate for any expenditure of energy that may be made. If, in other human activities, waste is repaired, will not emotional repair be made also? It is not emotional use, but emotional misuse which kills. Yet there are many professional actors and interpreters -whose business it is to move audiences-who argue that they can make a semblance of the emotion without the effort of feeling it. But there is always a hollow ring in their performance which can be detected by the "one judicious" although their efforts may this attitude, pass with "the whole theatre of others." By assuming emotional of their growth. For possibilities they also put an end to or as such the artist, there is no perfection. The attainment, thing never achieved. but is it always growing glory of all art is that can be Emotion Emotional Growth. developed through imita man. Our the tion of the inner, not personal experiences at outer, it is only by imagining narrow that and the best are so confined artist . |
