Literary notes about Counterpart (AI summary)
The term "counterpart" has been used in literature as a versatile device to denote equivalence, complementarity, and mirror images across a wide array of contexts. In mythological and religious texts, it often establishes relationships between genders or deities, such as in instances where a god’s name is paired with its feminine counterpart [1] or where woman is described as the divine and natural counterpart of man [2]. Philosophers and social theorists also employ it to highlight parallel structures in thought or society, as seen in discussions on laws and educational methods in Plato and Dewey’s works [3, 4, 5, 6]. In narrative prose, the word frequently underscores character similarities and oppositions—ranging from reflections of personality or identity [7, 8] to physical and symbolic doubles [9, 10]—thus serving as a powerful tool for drawing comparisons and emphasizing dualities in both abstract ideas and concrete realities [11, 12].
- Each of this god's names had a female counterpart; and the feminine form of Baal was Beltis, Ishtar, and Ashtarte .
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Thomas Inman and M.R.C.S.E. John Newton - Woman is the counterpart of man; she has the same divine image, having the same natural and inalienable rights as man.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - If you compare these very laws with ours you will find that many of ours are the counterpart of yours as they were in the olden time.
— from Timaeus by Plato - " The counterpart of the isolation of mind from activities dealing with objects to accomplish ends is isolation of the subject matter to be learned.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - There is a second, I said, which is the counterpart of the one already named.
— from The Republic by Plato - Generalization is the counterpart of abstraction.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - I glanced at him doubtfully, wondering if it were he or his counterpart before me.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - Not a man somewhat resembling him, but one in all respects his counterpart, his actual double, was floating as if dead in Ten Hatches Hole.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy - "The astral body is an exact counterpart of the last physical form.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - Further, the Fauns, the Italian counterpart of the Greek Pans and Satyrs, are described as being half goats, with goat-feet and goat-horns.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer - COUNTERPANE, one part or counterpart of a deed or indenture.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson - COUNTERPANE, one part or counterpart of a deed or indenture.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
