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reason is obvious. Any number of persons can view and hear the same thing from the same point of view without requiring any conscious activity, which involves the cons- ciousness of the individuality of the individual, or any fresh object. But that is not the case with touch or taste. In English dramas, however, because the emotions, intended to be aroused, are social emotions, such as sympathy and pity, which are due to the objective perception of the presented and do not require any identification with the focus, therefore, all the senses are appealed to, and there is much presentation of activity. The reason is that when the interest in the objective presentation is to be sustained, it is necessary then to present action, because the object as such ceases to be interesting as soon as it has been seen.

ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN PLOT. We have discussed above how the main plot is to be separated from the subordinate and how the presentable action has to be kept apart from the informable. The question that now arises, is : how is this main plot to be presented ? Here again, as before, the analytical method is to be followed. And the analysis of the action has to be made in relation to what it ultimately results in. This is the method which is pointed out by the analysis of the existing dramatic literature and the instructions of Bharata, which are followed in it. Any action, if conceived as complete, has five parts. (i) Before any action, that is to lead to any considerable achievement, is actually begun, there has to be a clear con- sciousness of what is intended to be achieved, eagerness and determination to get it and decision as regards the ways and means of attainment. (ii) Once the action is