Literary notes about Hopeful (AI summary)
In literature, "hopeful" is employed both as a descriptor of mood and as a defining trait of characters, subtly infusing narrative tone with optimism and resilience. Authors use it to convey emotional states ranging from tentative anticipation, as when a character’s tone becomes filled with expectation and gentle persuasion [1], to a broader, almost allegorical representation of hope embodied in figures such as Hopeful in a spiritual journey [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. The word also colors descriptions of settings and moods, suggesting a latent promise or the seeds of future growth, as seen when landscapes or moments are imbued with a vibrancy that hints at renewal [9, 10]. Whether marking a moment of personal reflection [11, 12] or setting the stage for heroic perseverance despite looming challenges [13, 14], "hopeful" serves as a versatile tool for deepening character portrayal and enhancing the thematic fabric of a narrative [15, 16, 17].
- "Come now, my friend—you will help?" said Naumann, in a hopeful tone.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot - Then said Hopeful, Ask him; methinks he should not be ashamed of his name.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan - Come, good Hopeful, and let us go over."
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan - Here is the easiest going; come, good Hopeful, and let us go over.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan - Then Christian and Hopeful looked upon one another with tears gushing out, but yet said nothing to the shepherds.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan - Then said Hopeful, "Ask him; methinks he should not be ashamed of his name."
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan - Let us go on, said Hopeful, lest the man with the whip overtake us again.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan - Then said Christian to Hopeful his fellow, Is it true which this man hath said? Hopeful's gracious answer Hope.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan - I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - The ground was good clean dust—no new herbage that, living, is half-way to death already, but the hopeful dust that holds the seeds of all life.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling - "I heartily agree with you, my dear uncle," was my somewhat hopeful rejoinder.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - So I resumed my work with a brain refreshed, and was very hopeful.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain - In his presence, she was of his own hopeful, easy-way-out mood.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser - The more he considered his plan the more hopeful it seemed.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton - This was his most hopeful thought, though it often came to nothing.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. Andersen - But being once past, Hopeful looked after him, and espied on his back a paper with this inscription, "Wanton professor and damnable apostate".
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan
