Examples Of Justice In Jurassic Park

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Poetic Justice, an outcome in which vice is punished and virtue is rewarded usually in a manner peculiarly or ironically appropriate for instance when humans attempt to control nature and are justly punished. This can be found in Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, a story in which a crazed scientist, John Hammond, assembled a team of top scientists to recreate extinct dinosaurs to use as attractions at his amusement park. In Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, Ed Regis, John Hammond, and Dennis Nedry were rightly punished. One character to suffer from poetic justice is John Hammond, the owner of InGen. Throughout Jurassic Park John Hammond is deceptive, selfish, and misleading which is wrong because although what he did wasn’t very serious it could have gotten worse over time and he could have begun to lie about serious situations and end up committing a crime, therefore, he had to die before he caused someone to be someone to be …show more content…

Ed Regis is selfish, cowardly, and lazy which is bad because it could have led to him being in a serious situation with someone’s life on the line but since he was cowardly he may have fled, undoubtedly, he had deserved to die before his cowardliness hurt someone. After running away from the kids because there is t-rex nearby Grant, who is now with the kids, notices Regis in the dark and a juvenile tyrannosaur. After playing with Regis and Regis yelling at the dinosaur suddenly “Regis began to scream. No words, just a high-pitched scream. The scream cut off abruptly, and when the juvenile lifted his head, Grant saw ragged flesh in his jaws”(216). Regis is cowardly and leaves the juvenile kids after there is an adult tyrannosaurus rex nearby. Regis suffers an ironic death by leaving the juvenile kids and being killed by a juvenile dinosaur. Although Regis may be cowardly, Dennis Nedry is

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