Literary notes about Harangue (AI summary)
In literature, "harangue" is frequently employed to evoke the image of a long, impassioned or even vehement discourse that can both captivate and repulse its audience. Writers often use the term to underscore moments of emotional intensity or to satirize excessively florid rhetoric, whether addressing political, social, or personal themes [1][2][3]. The word appears in contexts ranging from military exhortations and courtroom diatribes to intimate interpersonal exchanges, each instance lending the narrative a tone of urgency or irony [4][5][6]. In doing so, authors harness the multifaceted character of a harangue to mirror the real-life impact of prolonged speeches, emphasizing their power to persuade, chastise, or arouse a spectrum of responses from their listeners [7][8].
- “And our masters?” asked Blaisois, stupefied by this harangue, delivered with an air of profound sagacity, “will they be of your opinion?”
— from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - Menenius Agrippa, wishing to bring back the mutinous Roman people from Mount Sacer, ended his harangue with the fable of the Belly and the Members.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine - His martial men with fierce harangue he fir’d, And his own ardour in their souls inspir’d.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil - Already in most Towns, Electoral Committees were met; to regret Necker, in harangue and resolution.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - But he continued his harangue without waiting for a reply.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - And here she closed her harangue: a long one for her, and uttered with the demureness of a Quakeress.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë - After the poor fellow had taken the harangue, he was sent into his state-room, and the captain stood the rest of the watch himself.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana - All hunchbacks walk with their heads held high, all stutterers harangue, all deaf people speak low.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
