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- an outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically) (同)just deserts
- of or relating to poets; "poetic insight"
- characteristic of or befitting poetry; "poetic diction" (同)poetical
- of or relating to poetry; "poetic works"; "a poetic romance" (同)poetical
- characterized by romantic imagery; "Turners vision of the rainbow...was poetic"
- the quality of being just or fair (同)justness
- judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments
- a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
- study of poetic works
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- 『詩の』 / 詩的な / 詩人の,詩人のふさわしい
- 〈U〉『正義』,正しさ;『公平』,公正 / 〈U〉『正当性』,妥当性 / 〈U〉司法,裁判 / 〈C〉『裁判官』(judge),判事,《英》最高法院の判事,《米》最高裁判所判事
- 『詩人』,歌人 / 詩的才能のある人
- 詩学;詩論
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For other uses, see Poetic justice (disambiguation).
Poetic justice is a literary device in which virtue is ultimately rewarded or vice punished, often in modern literature by an ironic twist of fate intimately related to the character's own conduct.[1]
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- 1 Examples
- 1.1 Literature
- 1.2 Television and film
- 2 References
Examples[edit]
Literature[edit]
It Shoots Further Than He Dreams by John F. Knott, March 1918
- "For 'tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard." (Shakespeare, Hamlet (III.iv.226).)
- The story of Esther includes two instances of poetic justice, both involving Haman. Ultimately, Haman is executed on the gallows that he had prepared for Esther's cousin Mordecai.
- Dante's Divine Comedy reads like a compendium of examples of poetic justice.
- The self-fulfilling prophecy can be considered an early example of poetic justice. One example of this is the ancient Sanskrit story of Krishna, where King Kamsa is told in a prophecy that a child of his sister Devaki would kill him. In order to prevent it, he imprisons both Devaki and her husband Vasudeva, allowing them to live only if they hand over their children as soon as they are born. He murders nearly all of them one by one, but the eighth child, Krishna, is saved and raised by a cowherd couple, Nanda and Yasoda. After growing up and returning to his kingdom, Krishna eventually kills Kamsa. In other words, Kamsa's cruelty in order to prevent his death is what led to him being killed.
Television and film[edit]
- In the South Park episode "Chicken Lover", Kyle declares, "It's poetic justice" after Officer Barbrady gets his job back as Police Officer once he learns to read. It's poetic justice in that he learned to read because of the Booktastic Bus driver, who was making love to the town's chickens in a plot to force Barbrady to learn how to read. Barbrady's newfound literacy then allowed him to catch the very same chicken-lover in the act.
- The Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons feature repeated instances of poetic justice, as Wile E. Coyote always sets traps for Road Runner, only to end up in the traps himself.
- Poetic justice is referred to in The Simpsons episode "Boy Scoutz N the Hood." When Bart returns home from a Junior Campers meeting Homer asks "How was jerk practice, boy? Did they teach you how to sing to trees and build crappy furniture out of useless wooden logs?" The chair that Homer is sitting on then breaks and he declares "D'oh! Stupid poetic justice."
- In the film Batman Returns, The Penguin informs his traitorous cohort Max Shreck, that he will be killed in a pool of the toxic byproducts from his "clean" textile plant. The Penguin goes on to wonder if this is tragic irony or poetic justice.
- In the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indy's love interest Dr. Elsa Schneider is a Nazi agent. After this revelation, she tries fooling Indy and others saying, "I believe in the grail, not the swastika." Yet, she continues working with the Nazis and Walter Donovan. She tricks Donovan into drinking from the false grail and he dies a horrible death. In the end, poetic justice comes in the form of her death. She tries stealing the grail and triggers an earthquake. Indy grabs her hand before she falls into a bottomless pit. Yet, her greed overcomes her and she reaches for the grail again, causing Indy to lose his grip on her. Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr., sums her death up, saying, "Elsa never really believed in the grail. She thought she found a prize."
- Disney films, most specifically animated films, often use poetic justice as an ending device (examples include The Lion King, Aladdin, and The Great Mouse Detective, among many others), with the hero being rewarded, and the villain being punished in ironic and, occasionally, fatal ways.
- In the film, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, as well as in the short story and the musical, the titular character, Sweeney Todd, kills his customers with a razor blade. In a twist of the story, at the end, having assassinated the Judge and the Beadle, Todd is killed by Toby, a boy he kept with Mrs. Lovett, with his own razor blade, while Mrs. Lovett, who bakes the dead customers into meat pies, is thrown into her own oven to bake to death by Todd.
- In the film Back to the Future 2, when Marty McFly is on the roof top of Biff's Casino & Hotel, Biff issues a nod to poetic justice before admitting to killing Marty's father, George Mcfly, with the same gun he intends to kill Marty with.
- Some caper films end with poetic justice, when a criminal gang's takings of a well planned heist are lost in a manner that is usually not quite their own fault, in complete opposition to the perfect execution of the crime itself. A striking example are the last minutes of Mélodie en sous-sol or the original versions of Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job.
- In the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, several characters find poetic justice. This is most noticeable in the episode "The Southern Raiders", in which a Fire Nation soldier who killed Katara and Sokka's mother lives with his own mother in retirement, who is angry and constantly berating and talking down to him. The man killed Katara's mother, believing she was the last waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe, when she really lied to protect Katara.
- In the film Cruel Intentions, Kathryn, who has been holding up an image of purity, innocence, and popularity while actually being manipulative, deceitful, and two-faced, is exposed at the end of the film due to the diary of her stepbrother Sebastian, who had just recently died.
- In the film The Killing, after a very carefully planned, and at first successful robbery, a series of unexpected side events (an unfaithful and greedy wife, a too weak suitcase...) ends up with most of the gang killed, the money scattered by the wind at the airport, causing the mastermind to be arrested just when he was about to flee the country.
- In The X-Files episode "Darkness Falls," Mulder theorizes that a group of missing loggers are victims of attacks by extinct insects released from dormancy when the loggers cut down a 700 year-old tree. An environmental activist named Doug Spinney, who previously exposed the cut-down tree as one deliberately marked to be protected, then remarks, "That would be rather poetic justice, don't you think? Unleashing the very thing that would end up killing them?"
- In a scene in The Birdcage, it is revealed that a senator who co-founded a morality-obsessed coalition has been found dead with an underage prostitute.
- Many episodes of The Twilight Zone feature poetic justice, usually due to an ironic twist.
- In Marvel's The Avengers, the Hulk smashing Loki falls under poetic justice, as throughout the movie he continuously refers to him as a "mindless beast" and a "dull creature" while simultaneously believing in his own divinity.
- In Untraceable, Owen Reilly murdered his victims on camera and display it on the internet; however, his death was caught on camera and being shown all over the internet and it became poetic justice
References[edit]
- ^ Manuela Gertz (July 2010). Poetic Justice in William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom. GRIN Verlag. p. 4–. ISBN 978-3-640-66116-9. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
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English Journal
- Poetic justice: engaging in participatory narrative analysis to find solace in the "killer corridor".
- Dill LJ1.
- American journal of community psychology.Am J Community Psychol.2015 Mar;55(1-2):128-35. doi: 10.1007/s10464-014-9694-7.
- The author engaged with adolescents at a community-based youth organization as "co-researchers" to delve deeper into the lived experiences of youth of color residing in an urban neighborhood undergoing change. Participatory narrative analysis was used to empower participants to produce texts to make
- PMID 25510594
- Freeman M1.
- Integrative psychological & behavioral science.Integr Psychol Behav Sci.2011 Dec;45(4):389-96. doi: 10.1007/s12124-011-9171-x.
- This article is an extension of earlier discussion in the present journal regarding feelings in literature and, more broadly, the distinction between literary and scientific discourse. Valid though this distinction may be on some level, it is argued herein that it owes its very existence, in part, t
- PMID 21637934
- Dante's Divine Comedy revisited: what can modern psychoanalysts learn from a medieval "psychoanalysis"?
- Chessick RD1.
- The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis.J Am Acad Psychoanal.2001 Summer;29(2):281-304.
- I realize after having gone over this material that I have done a sort of deconstruction of Dante's Divine Comedy which putatively attempts to raise the human vision to transcendent heights and to focus love on the love of God, but which along the way indulges in the very human aspects of pity, comp
- PMID 11685992
Japanese Journal
- Poetic Justice and the Quest for Peace : Language Techniques in" The Other Voice", All Quiet on the Western Front, and Just and Unjust Wars
- Poetic dialogue between The Fall of Robespierre and Wat Tyler
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