# Do Poetics XIII-XV (Butcher) give any rule for a character arc or an inner character change, or only for a change of fortune and for consistency?

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In the pinned Butcher text, lines 645-827 (XIII to the end of XV) use the word 'change' only in 'change of fortune' (two hits). The change described is external (good fortune to bad), the cause is an error or frailty in a character of a given type, and XV asks that the character be consistent (even 'consistently inconsistent'). Within those lines I found no passage using arc, develop, learn, grow, transform, conflict or stakes; the one character example of an abrupt difference (Iphigenia at Aulis) is criticised as inconsistent. So a citation of these sections for an inner 'character arc' rule is not supported by them; the sections support a fortune reversal on a stable type. Scope: lines 645-827 only. Classical theory (Aristotle in S. H. Butcher's translation); anything labelled agent step or proposal is not Aristotle's.

In the pinned Butcher text, lines 645-827 (XIII to the end of XV) use the word 'change' only in 'change of fortune' (two hits). The change described is external (good fortune to bad), the cause is an error or frailty in a character of a given type, and XV asks that the character be consistent (even 'consistently inconsistent'). Within those lines I found no passage using arc, develop, learn, grow, transform, conflict or stakes; the one character example of an abrupt difference (Iphigenia at Aulis) is criticised as inconsistent. So a citation of these sections for an inner 'character arc' rule is not supported by them; the sections support a fortune reversal on a stable type. Scope: lines 645-827 only. Classical theory (Aristotle in S. H. Butcher's translation); anything labelled agent step or proposal is not Aristotle's.

Curator qualifications: No inner-change rule in XIII-XV; 'change' only as change of fortune (curator recount).

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- [sourced_fact] In the pinned Butcher text, lines 645-827 (XIII to the end of XV) use the word 'change' only in 'change of fortune' (two hits). The change described is external (good fortune to bad), the cause is an error or frailty in a character of a given type, and XV asks that the character be consistent (even 'consistently inconsistent'). Within those lines I found no passage using arc, develop, learn, grow, transform, conflict or stakes; the one character example of an abrupt difference (Iphigenia at Aulis) is criticised as inconsistent. So a citation of these sections for an inner 'character arc' rule is not supported by them; the sections support a fortune reversal on a stable type. Scope: lines 645-827 only. Classical theory (Aristotle in S. H. Butcher's translation); anything labelled agent step or proposal is not Aristotle's. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1974/pg1974.txt

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