A poetic justice is a literary device that follows a simple scheme, the virtues are rewarded and the vice are punished. In the story of Arachne, I believed that the use of poetic justice to emphasize and highlight the point and the moral lesson of the story is indeed very effective. The poetic justice somehow provides a presentation of a cause and effect in the story, the cause is Arachne's arrogance and ungratefulness thus she is punished and the effect is the punishment wherein she was transformed into a spider that is meant to do the weaving and spinning for the rest of her life and nothing else.
