Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle was a physician and a teacher. He believes that everything has a beginning, middle, and end. His ideas about the of unities of Greek tragedy and tragic flaws are a few of the things that he is famous for. The unities include time, place, and action. Time is when the tragedy tries to stay withing a 24 hour time frame, or one revolution of the sun. Place is when the tragedy sticks to one location because of the time frame. Action is when having action keeps you in that one intense place. Too many actions would be hard to keep up with.

Aristotle's tragic flaw, or "hamartia," is when a character is destroyed through some flaw they have. For example, Hamlet over thinking things. A more modern example would be Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman.

I've included the following video because I found it to be pretty funny. It is not very professional, but it does explain Aristotle pretty well.