Of six elements into which Aristotle analyses a tragedy, mythos holds first place and ethos is next in order. But this view is doubtful for us, because the relative importance of character and plot varies with different dramatists and different national temperaments, and in the evolution of tragedy there has been far more room for the growth of character-drawing than the plot. Now in this report we will pursue after Aristotle's fundamental views, for example, the universal representation of poetry, the probable or necessary sequence in tragedy etc., and then try to find the true relation between mythos and ethos.
