What is the most likely purpose of describing the amphitheater as an agent of poetic justice?"
Read the passage from "The lady, or the Tiger,"
The arena of the king was built, not to give the people an
opportunity of hearing the rhapsodies of dying gladiators,
nor to enable them to view the inevitable conclusion of a
conflict between religious opinions and hungry jaws, but
for purposes far better adapted to widen and develop the
mental energies of the people. This vast amphitheater,
with its encircling galleries, its mysterious vaults, and its
unseen passages, was an agent of poetic justice, in
which crime was punished, or virtue rewarded by the
decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance.
O to suggest that the king is a fair and just ruler
to reveal that the trials alvays end the same just way
to show that the building's architecture is a beautiful
site of justice
to impy that justice given out in the arena is not just
at all
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