Aristotle's teachings

Aristotle spoke of plays as dictations or multiple actions that all have a beginning, middle and end. Also, it is essential for every play to have some form of understandable, more importantly good, plot; in which characters, who each represent certain qualities of man, can express themselves in the specific situation the play is about. In the case for ‘An Indiscretion’ and ‘Shift,’ the characters are given, by the writers, a special emotional connection or trait that provides the actors with a sense of how to properly portray their characters. For ‘An Indiscretion,’ the play appears to begin the moment where WOMEN, who has a kind of intellectual feminist, yet reserved, attitude towards the events at hand, announces that she and her husband, MAN, should “make a list.” The MAN, who appears to be some type of politician, has an almost desperate, worried and ashamed quality to his personality, because of this, I believe that the middle of this play is when he confesses his age revealing his worry for being “old.” The end of this play, is when WOMEN shows her distrust and anger at the last line when she says how marrying MAN was a “mistake.” The next play, ‘Shift’ provides the reader with two similar personalities yet mentally different in respect to their surroundings. The start of this play is right at the beginning when DANE, who is the more timid and fearful character, asks how his friend KELLY, who is much more open about who she is and has no problem with change, is feeling. The middle is found at scene IV when DANE states how he is tired of the ever-changing city and is going to leave. The end of it however, is not at the direct end, I believe that the end of this play is when DANE asks KELLY if she wants to leave the city with him, because after that line it is basically about their past and how they met. These both follow Aristotle because each one of them individually creates a plot with internal action/conflict that the characters, who contain traits found in man.