Literary notes about Interpose (AI summary)
The term “interpose” is employed in literature as a versatile tool to denote physical, emotional, or ideological intervention. At times, it describes the act of inserting oneself or an object to serve as a barrier or mediator—for instance, when a state is compelled to interpose against oppression [1] or when a table is thrust between hostile parties [2]. In other cases, it characterizes the interruption of discourse, such as a character hastening to interject during a heated argument [3] or an authority stepping in to resolve a dispute [4]. Moreover, the word can evoke natural or abstract barriers, as when landscapes or fate itself ostensibly interpose obstacles in the narrative [5], [6]. Through these varied uses, writers capture both the tangible and metaphorical dimensions of intervening forces in human affairs.
- If the local majority attempts to oppress the minority, or one class another, the state is bound to interpose.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill - I flung her back, and hastened to interpose the table between us.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - “That’s all true,” Zossimov hastened to interpose.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The conversation exhibiting these unequivocal symptoms of verging on the personal, Mr. Pickwick deemed it a fit point at which to interpose.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - From the proximity of the enemy to his defences around Richmond, it was impossible, by any flank movement, to interpose between him and the city.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - In this state I appeared before my master, humbly entreating him to interpose his authority for my protection.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
