A large part of being able to act is the ability to fake the emotions of the character that is being depicted. One must be able to feel, see, and react as though they were actually the character they are going to portray. In the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a young girl named Sibyl Vane was a star actress in an otherwise shoddy venue. She even captured the love of Dorian with her ability to act, and in turn, fell in love him him as well. With this new found love for Dorian, Sibyl was unable to fake the emotion for her productions because she knew that the words and emotions were not hers, and her acting suffered greatly for it. She states that she only knew the theater as her world, but with Dorian, she was freed from the lie of believing the hollow shadows to be real. She found her individuality in loving another but ironically lost the love of Dorian because of it.
-Chris M.
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http://www.betadaily.com/2010/03/03/how-to-become-an-acting-coach/
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