Critical Reasoning

Stage performances are judged to be realistic to the degree that actors reproduce
on stage the behaviors generally associated by audiences with the emotional
states of the characters portrayed. Traditional actors imitate those behaviors,
whereas Method actors, through recollection of personal experience, actually
experience the same emotions that their characters are meant to be experiencing.
Audiences will therefore judge the performances of Method actors to be more
realistic than the performances of traditional actors.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

(A) Performances based on an actor’s own experience of emotional states are
more likely to affect an audience’s emotions than are performances based on
imitations of the behaviors generally associated with those emotional states.

(B) The behavior that results when a Method actor feels a certain emotion will
conform to the behavior that is generally associated by audiences with that
emotion.

(C) Realism is an essential criterion for evaluating the performances of both
traditional actors and Method actors.

(D) Traditional actors do not aim to produce performances that are realistic
representations of a character’s emotional states.

(E) In order to portray a character, a Method actor need not have had experiences
identical to those of the character portrayed.

Please substantiate your answer with reasoning rather than just writing IMO A, B, C, D and E.

IMO B

Audiences will therefore judge the performances of Method actors to be more
realistic.

For the audience to be able to judge, they should be able to relate.

This relation is expressed by B

Also IMO B.

Premises:
1. actors' performances more realistic if behaviors associated by audience with emotional states of character.
2. traditional actors imitate the behaviors
3. method actors experience the characters through personal experience
Conclusion: Method actors are more realistic

We need to fill the gap between 1 and 3 to reach to conclusion that is fulfilled by B only.

Or use the negation concept of assumption.

Between B and C. I chose C.

B is a strong contender, that is true, but what is the reason for not choosing C. ?

Yep, (B) it is...

Stuck between B & C.

What is 'Realism' is NOT the criteria for judging performance of both traditional and method actors. Doesnt this weaken the conclusion?

I will Go with option B in this case