4.4 The ranking completed So the plot is the source and (as it were) the soul of tragedy; character [50b] is second. (It is much the same in the case of painting: if someone were to apply exquisitely beautiful colours at random he would give less pleasure than if he had outlined an image in black and white.) Tragedy is an imitation of an action, and on account above all of the action it is an imitation of agents.
