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For Aristotle, tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and has a
certain magnitude. He futher explains that a tradegy must not have any satire or comedy, there
should be a certain plot line that follows the unity of time, place, and action and a certain
magnitude refers to the characters. When Aristotle talks about characters he clears that they
are legendary heroes, good then the normal people. Aristotle talks about pity and fear,
particularly through which he highlights the concept of tragic fall, also called Hamartia in which
the personality trait of a character leads to his or her downfall. To explain the concept of
tragedy more clearly, Aristotle established the six basic principles of tragedy i.e. plot, character,
diction, spectacle, thought, and song.
Aristotle defines plot as the soul of tragedy and emphasizes much on its unity. By
character, Aristotle means the tragic hero who is always higher than the ordinary moral worth.
Thought involves the content. There should be a proper relationship between thought and
situation. Diction refers to the expression of meaning in words, or it is a primary mode of
imitating the action. Spectacles means the scenes used in drama to heightens the emotional
significance of an event in the drama. Song is taken to be chief among the embellishments used
in tragedy.
There are many old literary books, plays, and movies that relate to the definition and principles
of tragedy stated by Aristotle. But is there any modern movie that relates to it? In my opinion
yes, a lot of them but the Netflix series "YOU" perfectly falls on how Aristotle talks about the
tragedy. Joe Goldberg and Love Quinn were trying to live a happy married life in Season 3 of the
Netflix drama You, but it was quite stressful for the short-fused new parents to start a new life in
Northern California. The killer couple was tempted by neighbors, enraged by judgmental
gossipers, and exhausted with the responsibilities of their new family. So the question became,
will Love and Joe work as a team to defend their family and keep each other's secrets, or will
they turn on the one person who could ultimately destroy them? The You Season 3 ending
answered that question, as serial killer Joe went head-to-head with his equally murderous wife.
It didn't take long for things to get out of control for Joe and Love in Season 3. Joe couldn't
overcome his habit of obsessing with girls thus began a new obsession with the neighbor,
Natalie. And in the name of protecting their secrets in a town full of security cameras, the
Quinn-Goldbergs buried themselves deeper and deeper until each of them felt it was literally
"kill or be killed." Love and Joe turned on each other after Joe became obsessed with librarian
Marienne and wanted to run away with her, and Love realized she couldn't break Joe's patterns.
It didn't take long for love to find out that Joe has strong feelings for his boss and he is obsessed
with her. So she tried to act smart and put aconite — a paralytic — on the handle of a knife, so
when Joe asked for a divorce and grabbed the knife to defend himself, he was rendered
paralyzed. However, the master of doubt that he was, Joe had noticed Love was growing
wolfsbane in their garden to make the paralytic, and upon realizing that Love knew about
Marienne, he pre-emptively took an antidote. Joe needed only to wait for the adrenaline to kick
in before he was able to attack Love, injecting her with a fatal dose of aconite. Season 3 ended
tragically with the death of love.
Season 3 had a beautiful beginning but things take a huge turn when Love figured out that it
was not her but Joe who was the problem in their relationship. She was so overconfident that
she would kill Joe and run away with her son, at one point, she got almost successful in killing
him but the tables turned again when the mastermind Joe ended up killing Love, leading to a
tragic ending. However, the plot remained united throughout. Joe and Love were the main
characters who were neither thoroughly good nor thoroughly evil but a mixture of both. The
tragic and unfortunate end of Love moves in us pity and fear. She moves in us to pity because
her misfortune is greater than what she deserves from her hamartia. Aristotle was of the view
that tragedy must evolve emotions of pity and fear. There were many scenes used in drama for
the sake of the emotional attraction of the audience. For instance, the last thing Love said to Joe
was "We are so perfect for each other, but not for our son" and it made sense. Joe and Love
were soul mates as if they were just destined for each other but love's over-smartness and
confidence lead her to a tragic fall and Joe wins again.
Some critics argue that death of Love wasn't a tragic fall but for me it was beacuse when Joe
asked Love for divorce she could have just agreed and lived her life peacefully beacuse there
relationship was over long ago they were together for the sake of there son, Henry. It was Love's
pride and attitude that she did not agree on divorce instead tried to kill Joe but ended up dying.
Love's death left me in catharsis because Joe and Love made a perfect match, they were
a strong team. Also, it felt as if Joe was ready to change for her because there were scenes
when he felt guilty for going to Nathalie's house or stalking his boss. She died looking into joe's
eyes, saying, "Joe", with pain in her eyes. It left me in pity and somewhere fear. But, what we
learned about Love in all of season 3, it's that, unlike Joe, she was careless and unprepared for
all her murderous sprees. She just used to beat people, without killing them properly or having
a solid plan in her head as she did with Theo, something Joe in his two seasons has effectively
avoided. And it makes sense then that her plan to kill Joe falls off the rails with her paying the
ultimate price. She was weaker than Joe when it comes to killing people but she was not ready
to accept it.

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