Poetic Justice

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.

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Famous quotes containing the words poetic and/or justice:

    “There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so.... The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.”
    —Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)