Literary notes about Monition (AI summary)
The term "monition" has been used in literature to embody both a warning and a broader, more ambiguous form of counsel or inspiration. In Thomas Carlyle’s work, it serves as a foreboding message about the inevitability of resistance and the consequences of bloodshed, conveying an almost fatalistic inevitability in the face of revolution [1]. Carlyle further employs the word to suggest that the innate guidance of one's wild heart could be interpreted as a sort of divinely inspired warning or counsel emanating from genius [2]. Meanwhile, M. E. Braddon challenges the concept by musing whether such monition might at times verge on a form of obsessive mania, thus highlighting its complex and multifaceted usage in literary contexts [3].