Literary notes about Framework (AI summary)
The term "framework" bursts with versatility in literature, serving both as a concrete descriptor of physical structures and as a metaphor for abstract systems and organizations. Authors like H. G. Wells, Victor Hugo, and Sherwood Anderson invoke the tangible framework of windows, theaters, and houses to evoke decay or support in their settings [1, 2, 3, 4]. Meanwhile, writers such as Rabindranath Tagore and Émile Durkheim extend its use to the guise of narrative or societal organization, framing entire stories or the underpinnings of familial and social life [5, 6, 7, 8]. The term further assumes a symbolic role in works by Dostoyevsky and Tennyson, where it captures the inner architecture of ideas, personal nature, or even poetic allegory [9, 10]. In each instance, "framework" functions as a bridge linking the physical with the philosophical, demonstrating literature’s ability to layer meaning through language [11, 12, 13].
- Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells - planks and erected the framework of the theatre and the woodwork; and I, who have made the piece.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo - The farmhouse was built of wood, a board outer-covering over a framework of logs.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson - Thus the house had become unrecognizable, and Bertuccio himself declared that he scarcely knew it, encircled as it was by a framework of trees.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - In the “Pancatantra” this story forms the framework for the fourth book.
— from Filipino Popular Tales - It constitutes, in short, the framework of society's life which to each new generation is a part of its hereditary outfit.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - It is to be remembered that in this society, it is the matrimonial classes that serve as the framework of the classification (see above, p. 144).
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim - To us the State seems to be built up out of the family, or sometimes to be the framework in which family and social life is contained.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - With me money is an accessory, the overflow of my heart, the framework.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The allegory Tennyson explains in the dedicatory verses, but the framework of the poem was evidently suggested by Ecclesiastes ii. 1-17.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson - As soon as men lose confidence in the foundations of the mental framework which guides their conduct, they feel at first uneasy and then discontented.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - The structure is a framework, or apparatus, or perhaps only a number of functionaries set to co-operate in prescribed ways at a certain conjuncture.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - One's thoughts may be much occupied with love-struggles, but hardly so as to be insensible to a disorder in the general framework of things.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot
