Literary notes about Juggernaut (AI summary)
The term juggernaut in literature often signifies an overwhelming, unstoppable force that destroys or transforms everything in its path. Authors deploy the word both as a striking metaphor—to describe powerful engines or mass movements that sweep aside obstacles ([1], [2])—and as a personified character endowed with almost mythic significance, as when a figure named Juggernaut speaks or acts with an unyielding presence ([3], [4], [5]). At times it is used to critique societal or commercial institutions by comparing them to colossal machines that crush the weak and sideline dissent ([6], [7], [8]). This diverse usage not only imbues the term with a dramatic and awe-inspiring quality but also deepens its role as a symbol of force, fate, and the inexorable march of modernity.
- And who are they that work this Juggernaut of an engine, that run this overgrown business of state?
— from Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge - In the commercial world it was a Juggernaut car; it wiped out thousands of businesses every year, it drove men to madness and suicide.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - "Do you believe that they are alive?" asked Juggernaut.
— from A Safety Match by Ian Hay - The great Juggernaut, in his great chariot, drew on lofty, loud, and sullen.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - You might as well ask me to love and worship Baal or Moloch or Juggernaut as such a God as that.
— from Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler - As it was, the inherent fear of that great, inevitable Juggernaut, the Company, stirred in him.
— from The Wilderness Trail by Francis William Sullivan - But the danger was not over yet, as Juggernaut well knew.
— from A Safety Match by Ian Hay - JUGGERNAUT AND JUGGLERS 197 CHAPTER XXII.
— from Across India; Or, Live Boys in the Far East by Oliver Optic
