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Plot and Character Aristotle argues that, among the six formative elements, the plot is the most important element.The plot contains a beginning, a middle and an end, where the beginning is what is "not posterior to another thing," while the middle needs to have something happened before, and something to happen after it, but after the end there is nothing else." The characters serve to advance the action of the story, not vice verse. The ends we pursue in life, our happiness and our misery, all take the form of action. Tragedy is written not merely to imitate man but to imitate man in action. That is. according to Aristotle, happiness consists in a certain kind of activity rather than in a certain quality of character. As David Daiches says: "the way in which the action works itself out, the whole casual chain which leads to the final outcome.Lastly, Aristotle notes that forming a solid plot t is far more difficult than creating good characters or diction.Incidents mean action, and tragedy is an imitation of actions, both internal and external.

Plot and Character
Aristotle argues that, among the six formative
elements, the plot is the most important element. He writes in
The Poetics. The plot is the underlying principle of tragedy'.
By plot Aristotle means the arrangement of incidents.
Incidents mean action, and tragedy is an imitation of actions,
both internal and external. That is to say that it also imitates
the mental processes of the dramatic personae. In answering
a question once he said that a tragedy could be written
without a character but not without a plot. Though his
overstatement on plot, he accepts that without action there
cannot be a tragedy. The plot contains a beginning, a middle
and an end, where the beginning is what is "not posterior to
another thing," while the middle needs to have something
happened before, and something to happen after it, but after
the end there is nothing else."
The characters serve to advance the action of the story,
not vice verse. The ends we pursue in life, our happiness and
our misery, all take the form of action. Tragedy is written not
merely to imitate man but to imitate man in action. That is.
according to Aristotle, happiness consists in a certain kind of
activity rather than in a certain quality of character. As David
Daiches says: “the way in which the action works itself out,
the whole casual chain which leads to the final outcome.
Diction and Thought are also less significant than plot: a
series of well-written speeches bas nothing like the force of a
well-structured tragedy. Lastly, Aristotle notes that forming a
solid plot t is far more difficult than creating good characters
or diction. Having asserted that the plot is the most important
of the six parts of tragedy, he ranks the remainder as follows.
from most important to least: Character, Thought, Diction,
Melody, and Spectacle. Character reveals the individual
motivations of the characters in the play, what they want or
don't want, and how they react to certain situations, and this
is more important to Aristotle than thought, which deals on a
more universal level with reasoning and general truths.
Diction, Melody/ Songs and Spectacle are all pleasurable
accessories, but the melody is more important in tragedy than
spectacle.