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by
wharfinger
Wed Aug 09 2000 at 17:43:25
Merriam Webster
online
has this to say:
"An outcome in which
vice is punished and virtue rewarded
usually in a manner
peculiar
ly or
ironically appropriate
".
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=poetic+justice
Yeah, "
peculiar
ly or
ironic
ally appropriate". Take the scene in
The Return of the Jedi
where
Boba Fett
falls into the buried monster's
gullet
on
Tatooine
:
That
is poetic
justice
, and the only reason we expect it to happen is that poetic
justice
of that sort ("
bad guy hoist by own petard
") is a
cliché
in
action movies
.
Half the people who talk about "poetic justice" nowadays haven't a clue what it means. You can use the term however you like, of course. You can also say "
horse
" when you mean "
lawnmower
". Hell, you can just stand there and grunt, if that's
what turns you on
. You'll be communicating just as effectively.
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