Have we not all been instructed in the sacrosanct virtues of beginning, middle, end? Complication, climax, resolution? A respect for Aristotelian unities? For the clarity of chronology? For clarity itself? As if the limitations of realism were not in fact limitations.
O: This quote is very interesting to me because it stresses the structure of plays, books, and literature that we believe is important to follow, like we have been told. Also, we are told that literature is limitless and can express anything, however this structure we have been taught to follow in most english classes for years, does in fact limit our writing.