Yes it is. Next question. No, seriously: it is because it follows established laws of Greek (Ancient Greek) drama - see below. Also, it is a shocking dose of 'reality' for post-war audiences and it has one of the bleakest dramatic climaxes you will ever see outside of an episode of Eastenders. No, really.
The following is from http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/spectop007.html
The most famous of the Aristotelian rules were those relating to the so-called unities--of time, place, and action. The unity of time limits the supposed action to the duration, roughly, of a single day; unity of place limits it to one general locality; and the unity of action limits it to a single set of incidents which are related as cause and effect, "having a beginning, a middle, and an end."
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
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