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a good essayist does. He first jots down the points, which he has to elaborate. This is what we find in the modern books. The contents of a book are divided under broad shoulder-headings. This kind of division helps in the presentation and in the apprehension. It is the ex- perience of every teacher that, when a complicated problem has to be attempted in the class, the best method of putting it before the class is to split it into parts and to present each part separately.

This kind of division is more necessary when the presentation is to be attempted by a number of persons of different intellectual equipments, of different sexes, of different ages, speaking different languages, as in the case of the dramatic presentation. We know that in staging a drama utmost precision is necessary in presenting physical movements, voluntary and involuntary changes in the facial and other physical expressions, intonation of and emphasis on words, the manner of delivery and above all the basic mental state together with the transient, which is the main spring of all. It is, therefore, necessary for each actor to know how much and no more he has to speak and act and in what state of mind. This is made easy to know by the division.

This facilitates the task of the dramatist also inasmuch as it enables him to find out easily as to what stage. instructions to give to a particular character, in what language to put his statement and what to contain in it. And because the division makes it possible to attend to every part, it naturally, therefore, adds to the clarity of presentation. Thus the division helps all, the spectator, the actor, and the dramatist.