Literary notes about Ostracized (AI summary)
In literature, the term "ostracized" is often used to convey the profound isolation and rejection experienced by individuals or groups who fall outside accepted societal norms. It appears in narratives describing characters banished from political life despite lingering influence [1, 2], as well as in accounts of personal persecution and social alienation that can lead to tragic outcomes [3, 4]. Authors employ the word to illustrate how nonconformity or even misunderstood loyalty may result in being shunned by one's peers or society at large, underscoring a loss of status and personal dignity [5, 6]. Such portrayals powerfully evoke the emotional toll and enduring stigma of exclusion, a theme that resonates throughout many literary works [7, 8].
- Although formally ostracized from political life, their influence as landowners secured them consideration.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various - Thus the vote merely expressed political preference, the ostracized person being simply the defeated candidate for popular favor.
— from General History for Colleges and High Schools by P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness) Myers - They were ostracized and persecuted, and some of their co-workers even killed.
— from A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Benjamin Griffith Brawley - Anathematized and ostracized by Athanasians and Arians alike, he died in exile.
— from A Short History of ChristianitySecond Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson - The lady hesitated quite awhile, thinking it would be too great a sacrifice to be socially ostracized by her own race.
— from Octavia, the Octoroon by J. F. Lee - It demands that all people be alike or that they be ostracized.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois - A man may steal from government with impunity, who would be socially ostracized for cheating his neighbor.
— from Historic Waterways—Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites - Their husbands and children refused to be seen with them in public, and they were wholly ostracized by other women.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) by Ida Husted Harper
