Poetic Justice- Literary Terms
Poetic Justice- Literary Terms
Poetic justice is an ideal distribution of rewarding the good and punishing the bad. The term was first used by Thomas Rhymer in Tragedies of the Last Age (1678) to express the idea that the good are rewarded and the evil punished. Poetic justice occurs, when a misunderstood protagonist is praised after a long struggle or when his/her antagonist is cast out from the community. Example:
In Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, when villain Bill Sykes envisions the eyes of Nancy, the girl-friend he has viciously murdered, he accidentally hangs himself by a rope he had intended to o escape from an angry crowd seeking vengeance for her death.
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