Poetic Justice in Literature

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Abstract: Poetic justice in literature describes evil characters are punished or brought to justice for their actions, and good characters are rewarded. Literature that utilizes poetic Justice will often have happy endings with moral lessons for the reader to learn. The history and definition of poetic justice come from Thomas Rymer , a drama critic who wrote the essay “The Tragedies of the Last Age consider’d. ” in 1678 . Rymer’s view was that a poem ( In a sense that includes dramatic tragedy) is an ideal that realm of its own and should be governed by ideal principles of decorum and morality and not by the random way things often work out in actual world.