Drama - More Scientific, More Realistic

In Spanish class they asked us to think about the difference between drama and straight prose, and after a bit of internal grumbling, because, after all, I've always preffered prose because I love words, the more of them the better, the rich descriptions of landscapes and psyche and so on, preferred these to the transcript-style of drama, especially when read.

But after that, I just thought about Belief vs. Communication, Anthropological Theories of Religion. Only one of the two is scientific... Communication.
After all, who can prove who believes in what?

But when we read we know, we're in someone else's head, we hear their real thoughts or so we think... in fiction we can accept it, in creative nonfiction we have to realize that the re-imagined thoughts are basically remixed communication from what they once said.

And it's interesting, because drama isn't like this. Drama is all communication. We guess at thoughts, motivations based on communicated words and body language and actions, just as in the real world.

So drama is more scientific, more realistic...
Not to say it's BETTER,
Ordinary prose just gives more of an insight, a window into another perspective, allows for commentary, and explanation, in a way that isn't fully testable, and so, it's an interesting thought, isn't 100% verifiable or trustworthy.