Society also endows some roles with considerable clarity, while leaving others open to individual interpretation, The roles people play and the way in which they play them determine personality.

Within American slavery as well as within the German concentration camps, the number of roles available were severely limited, and both the slave master and the camp guard defined them very clearly.

Both demanded a precise and careful performance.

There were those whose performance was faultless in playing their roles.

While the concentration camp guard guaranteed its performance through terror and torture, the slave master usually used more subtle means.