Is Aristotle to blame for the linear narrative?

I was reminded today, as I read for my MA in creative writing, that I used to distrust that sentence, ‘A story must have a beginning, a middle and an end’ repeated to me by my English teacher.

Cancer Research and Support, 2019. Cycle 300 – me cycling around South Glos’ in the icy rain

Micro Flash Response to The Vase and the Rose by Paulo Coelho

The man had got the job, it was clear; he was the one who had the courage, out of all the applicants sitting in the circle, to shatter the beautiful vase. The applicants had not left yet. Cordelia did something else; she stood up and picked up the pieces; she even picked up the shards;