The_Heiress

The Heiress The Heiress "The Heiress" written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz displays many examples of Aristotle’s six elements. Poetics outlines the six elements which are: plot, characters, thought, diction, music (or sound), and spectacle, all of which were present in this play. "The Heiress" is a play about a young woman living in New York with her father. One day she gets a “gentlemen caller” who, after two weeks time, ends up asking her to marry him. The young woman, named Catherine Sloper, is set to inherit an unordinary amount of money after her father passes away. The father, Dr. Austin Slope, is immediately suspicious of the gentleman caller, Morris Townsend. Dr. Sloper thinks, because of the short period and Morris Townsend’s lack of money that Townsend may not want to marry Catherine for love. As it turns out, Dr. Sloper is right, Catherine gets her heiress, play, sloper, dr, catherine, thought, father, young, woman, townsend, theater, sound, small, six, one, morris, money, marry, lines, gets, elements, caller, after, york, written, worked, weeks, very, upon, unordinary, two, turns, townsend’s, time