When Love and Hate Collide

Poetic justice can be defined as a punishment for a vice usually in an ironic matter. While watching this episode of The Twilight Zone I came across some examples of poetic justice. At the beginning the episode takes place in a town, a town that had been destroyed by war, we see a women appearing she finds a can of chicken and eats it, then a man arrives he can see how their uniforms are different and he slaps the woman leaving her unconscious on the floor. Then the man and women interact some more comes my first impression of poetic justice, this is how when the video starts the man and women are each alone but then they start interacting, and in the end of the video they end up together, that being opposites; alone and know with a companion. As the video continues that two characters interact much more with each other in a positive and negative way also, but the towards the end the video makes a twist and suddenly what I was watching may be seen as a love story since the man and woman are showing some kind of affection against each other. With the twist the video creates comes my second example of poetic justice this being between love and hate, how in the beginning of the video the feelings these two have for each other is hate because they are enemies, but at the end the hate becomes love, I see this as poetic justice since love and hate are two complete opposite, they started feeling hate and as the story shifts that hate turns to love.

Finally I think this whole video has a big example of poetic, mainly starting with how the men and women interact, since during the video their emotions change. They start off with hate, and then I can say they become friends or more likely not enemies, after that we can see hate and competition again but to finish off it becomes love that as I said before it’s the opposite of hate. It is as if the two characters understand that in the end it will be better for them that way instead of competing.