Literary notes about Order (AI summary)
The term "order" functions in literature as a multifaceted concept that encompasses purpose, sequence, structure, and authority. Authors frequently deploy it as a means of indicating methodical arrangement or progress—as seen when a deed must be drawn up to have things “in order” [1] or when a course is set “in order to” reach a destination [2]. It also serves to establish hierarchy and command, whether in military contexts [3], social strata [4], or within organized groups and institutions [5]. At times, order signifies an intrinsic natural or aesthetic arrangement, infusing texts with the sense that every element has its required place as part of a larger whole [6]. This layered use of the word enriches narrative and expository writing alike by linking logical progression, causality, and ritual adherence through a single, versatile term [7].
- I suppose a purchase deed had better be made out in order to have everything in order?”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol - With this design we changed our course, and steered away N.W. by W., in order to reach some of our English islands, where I hoped for relief.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - The army is in splendid order, and equal to any thing.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - The religious ardor was more strongly felt by the princes of the second order, who held an important place in the feudal system.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Applied to a member of the Indian order of monks, the title has the formal respect of "the reverend.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - It has carried light and order into whole branches of human knowledge which before were shrouded in darkness and confusion.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - “I know this much, that you did not go out to honest work, but went away with a rich man, Rogojin, in order to pose as a fallen angel.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
