Over the past few weeks, I have learned about Aristotle's six elements of tragedy. He believed that, for a tragedy to truly be a tragedy, it must have good plot, character, thought, diction, music, and spectacle. The plot must have an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement. Secondly, it must have character development, which includes the driving force of the individuals in the drama and the psychological make-up that determines the way the people respond to a situation. Then there is thought, or how deep the intellectual content of the play is, followed by diction, or the words used in the play. They are followed by music, how the way the actors speak their words and the musical component of the play. Without these six essentials, a tragedy could not possibly affect its viewers the way that they do.