Literary notes about Naturally (AI summary)
The adverb "naturally" is employed in literature to indicate that a behavior, trait, or outcome arises as a logical or inherent consequence of a character’s nature or circumstance. It can subtly affirm the expected, even inevitable, sequence of events or reactions, as when a character’s curiosity leads him to explore without hesitation [1] or when an architectural decline implies further decay in related arts [2]. At times, it underscores personal inclinations—demonstrating that a general’s anxiety or a character’s reticence is intrinsic to his disposition [3, 4]—while in other instances it punctuates a cause-and-effect relationship in arguments or descriptions, such as in discussions of economic theory or natural phenomena [5, 6]. This layered usage weaves an underlying logic into narrative and expository writing, signaling that what follows is as much a natural outworking of conditions as it is a matter of fact [7, 8].
- His curiosity was naturally excited, and he proceeded to gratify it by taking up a few blades and tasting them.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens - 122 If such was indeed the state of architecture, we must naturally believe that painting and sculpture had experienced a still more sensible decay.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Of course, General Thomas saw that on him would likely fall the real blow, and was naturally anxious.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - This is all very provoking to Miss Scatcherd, who is naturally neat, punctual, and particular.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë - Where they are naturally cheap, they are consumed duty free; where they are naturally dear, they are loaded with a heavy duty.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - Naturally Every Man Has Right To Everything
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes - But, in consequence of the division of labour, the whole of every man's attention comes naturally to be directed towards some one very simple object.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - And here I am naturally led to reflect on the means of elevating a low subject.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot
