The Relationship between Action and Character in Aristotle's Poetics.

According to Aristotle in Poetics, dramatic characterization should show the character's moral choice in the form of action, and good moral choice is the criterion of the tragic character's moral goodness. A good or virtuous action, based on Nicomachean Ethics, is an action free from extremes, that is, an action in which the rule of the middle is observed. The tragic character is morally similar to us because he commits a moral error like us, but he is also superior to us because despite his moral error, he can return to the path of virtuous life. According to Aristotle, action and character in tragedy should be intertwined in such a way that they represent the all-moral nature of human life. Therefore, the ideal character of tragedy is morally, and potentially, good; who tries to realize and actualize his moral goodness during the rational, causal, unified and goal-oriented process of tragic design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]