medy imitates the action of the inferior people. Tragedy imitates actions of mythical heroes and heroines and comedy those of ordinary people. Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is complete in itself, as a whole of some magnitude and the tragic action should contain a proper "beginning, middle, and end' and should proceed in necessary or probable sequence. In addition, tragedy should have the length which allows of the hero passing by a series of probable or necessary stages from bad fortune to good, or from good to bad because beauty is a matter of size and order. By describing what is necessary or probable, tragedy becomes more philosophical than history. One of the causes that gave rise to poetry is the pleasure
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