Literary notes about Homicide (AI summary)
In literature the term homicide is used in a variety of contexts to connote both the moral weight of an act and its legal repercussions. For instance, early moral reflections assert that homicide is inherently wrong ([1]), while historical narratives and legal treatises discuss it in terms of punishment, intentionality, and even justifiability ([2], [3], [4]). Poetic and dramatic works further employ the word to heighten emotional intensity or underscore personal tragedy, as when it is lamented in Shakespearean verse ([5], [6], [7]) or used to denote fateful events in epic storytelling ([8], [9]). In this way, homicide becomes a multifaceted literary device that encapsulates ethical judgment, legal nuance, and the profound human consequences of violence.
- You will say it is true that homicide is wrong.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal - It was a homicide, for which the Courtenays expected to be pardoned, or tried, as princes of the blood.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - And if a man kills his own slave, when he has been purified according to law, he shall be quit of the homicide.
— from Laws by Plato - Mr. [209] Farneaux was brought from jail to the crowded court-room for his trial on the charge of homicide.
— from A Country Idyl, and Other Stories by Sarah Knowles Bolton - If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide, These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - Salisbury is a desperate homicide; He fighteth as one weary of his life.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - Every man's conscience is a thousand men, To fight against this guilty homicide.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - And once, not hidden, She brought forth Abel, And Cain the forlorn, The homicide.
— from The Mabinogion - shall we scourge this pride, And drive from fight the impetuous homicide?" To whom assenting, thus the Thunderer said: "Go!
— from The Iliad by Homer
