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Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate".It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary.
The two consecutive episodes of The Irony of Fate were originally broadcast by the Soviet central television channel, Programme One, [7] on 1 January 1976, at 18:00. [8] The film was a resounding success with audiences: author Fedor Razzakov recalled that "virtually the entire country watched the show"; [ 9 ] the number of viewers was estimated ...
Although Charlotte is not spared the narrator's irony, she is not explicitly condemned by Jane Austen, whose own financial situation is not so dissimilar. [39] It was a sadly commonplace reality at the time: the "marriage market" was crowded with unmarried daughters dependent on their parents, whose only dream was to secure a comfortable ...
Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what appears to be the case on the surface and what is actually the case or to be expected. It typically figures as a rhetorical device and literary technique. In some philosophical contexts, however, it takes on a larger significance as an entire way of life.
The Irony of Fate 2 or The Irony of Fate: Continuation [a] is a 2007 Russian romantic comedy film directed by Timur Bekmambetov based on a screenplay by Aleksey Slapovsky produced by Channel One and released by Mosfilm. It is a direct sequel of the first The Irony of Fate. [3]
Thomas Mann as Griffin Reed, based on the character Zhenya Lukashin from The Irony of Fate; Madelaine Petsch as Clementine Pratt, Griffin's girlfriend and an Instagram influencer, based on the character Galya from The Irony of Fate; Lewis Tan as Kip Prescott, Margot's boyfriend, [7] based on the character Ippolit from The Irony of Fate
Poetic justice, also called poetic irony, is a literary device with which ultimately virtue is rewarded and misdeeds are punished. In modern literature, [ 1 ] it is often accompanied by an ironic twist of fate related to the character's own action, hence the name "poetic irony".