Aristotle Character Analysis

Have you ever imagined your life being written as a story where you are acting as the protagonist in the story and you are playing out a particular character? This is how Aristotle views human life as. He states that when we are first born, we are born into a story. Your character is born into a specific role that you must play. So you were born into a family, you are expected to be a daughter and play the role as a daughter. You were born into this role; it is not something that is a chosen factor. You develop this specific role and the qualities that go along with this in many different parts of your life. But you do not play just one role in your life, you play many roles and have many relationships with many people. Therefore, creating different qualities …show more content…
First let us look at the definition of excellence according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, the definition of excellence is extremely high quality. What was is Aristotle trying to do when combining the study of Ethics and excellence? He wants us to have extremely high quality, excellence, in the roles we play in everyday life. Ways that we can become excellent in our many roles that we play is by practicing the role. Just like the musician, he needs to practice the skill of sensing the rhythm so he can perform as a musician. After you have practiced this great skill it should become a force of habit and almost become a natural instinct. But, back to the musician example, after he practices he is finding that sense of rhythm is a force of habit that he finds in every song or beat that he plays. To use an example for the people that do not strive to be a musician, but we could practice a certain skill in our social skills. Every day you have some sort of human interaction. You can simply practice the skill of using manners, it will then become a force of habit to use and is a great skill to