Literary notes about Dispute (AI summary)
The term "dispute" in literature encompasses a broad range of conflicts—from personal quarrels and ideological disagreements to formal debates and legal controversies. It can evoke the intensity of personal estrangement as seen when characters reconcile after bitter encounters [1, 2, 3], or it may serve as a metaphor for broader societal or political conflicts, highlighting struggles for justice and truth [4, 5, 6]. Authors also employ the term to illustrate scholarly debates and the rigorous examination of ideas, whether in philosophical treatises or in the courtrooms of fiction [7, 8, 9]. Even in lighter moments, "dispute" underscores the clash of opinions and the inherent human tendency to contend, as noted across works by writers like Shakespeare and Mark Twain [10, 11, 12].
- It was the first time he had addressed her since their dispute the previous day.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - “One might dispute your right to ask such questions,” observed Lebedeff’s nephew.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - “However, I won’t dispute it, let me be a braggart, why not brag, if it hurts no one?
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - If I find you easy, and not attempting to dispute or avoid your present lot, I will keep to my word, although it is a difficulty upon me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson - When the dispute between ranks and classes, which aims at equality of rights, is almost settled, the fight will begin against the solitary person.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - Round this point centres the whole dispute about the methods proper to political theory.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - It is settled beyond dispute that organic progress consists in a change from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - 6.9; to question, dispute, cavil, Mar. 9.14, 16, et al.: whence Συζήτησις, εως, ἡ, mutual discussion, debate, disputation, Ac. 15.2, 7; 28.29.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield - For what judge in a private cause ever acted in this way, so as to adjudge to himself the property in dispute?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy - Let us be thankefull For that which is, and with you leave dispute That are above our question.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - To settle the dispute, we appealed to the boy.
— from Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome - At that moment the word in dispute was the word three.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain
