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The Plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy: Character holds the second place.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, showing what kind of things a man chooses or avoids. Speeches, therefore, which do not make this manifest, or in which the speaker does not choose or avoid anything whatever, are not expressive of character.
Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.
Letter is an indivisible sound, yet not every such sound, but only one which can form part of a group of sounds.