ABSTRACT
Audiences may be classified by what kinds of appeals can be made to them. In hate of the real audience there may be love of an imagined audience. The hate of the real audience may increase the love of the ideal. Love lies in laughter and pleasure, not agony and death. The difference between men and women becomes a principle of joy and life. Guilt, embarrassment, and isolation arise in status communication when there is no transcendent principle strong enough to overcome disrelationships between different classes of beings. Since soliloquy is an individual struggle to resolve contradictions and incongruities, it offers many clues to social problems. The soliloquy is not simply a dramatic "device" but a characteristic of social life. Mortification originates in a dramatic struggle between good and evil within the self, for within the self, as on a stage, hero and villain struggle for victory before inner audiences whose approval brings sorrow or joy.
