This literary device was parodied by Bertolt Brecht in The Theepenny Opera, and is evident in the conclusions of novels such as Dicken's Oliver Twist and Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
This literary device was parodied by Bertolt Brecht in The Theepenny Opera, and is evident in the conclusions of novels such as Dicken's Oliver Twist and Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Euripides was especially noted for using the device, which the ancient Greeks used literally in lieu of unexpected inheritances and lost wills. For ten points, name this practice, Latin for "a god from a machine."
This literary device was parodied by Bertolt Brecht in The Theepenny Opera, and is evident in the conclusions of novels such as Dicken's Oliver Twist and Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
{Deus ex machina}