It is just in this respect that tragedy differs from comedy. The latter sets out to represent people as worse than they are to-day, the former as better. A third difference in these arts is the manner in which one may represent each of these objects. [20] For in representing the same objects by the same means it is possible to proceed either partly by narrative and partly by assuming a character other than your own—this is Homer’s method—or by remaining yourself without any such change, or else to