Literary notes about Outrage (AI summary)
The word “outrage” is used in literature to express a wide array of moral, social, and personal violations. Authors employ it to articulate everything from a profound shock at societal injustice—as seen when insufficient education is depicted as an affront to decency in [1]—to the searing sting of personal insult and betrayal evident in settings that evoke deep indignation, as in [2] and [3]. In some works, the term underscores the intensity of political or public transgressions, provoking heated protest or criticism in [4] and [5], while in others it heightens the emotional landscape of narratives, whether capturing the subtle humiliation in [6] or the graphic brutality in [7]. This versatility allows “outrage” to serve as a powerful marker of both internal turmoil and external discord in a wide range of literary voices.
- The portion of education allotted to us is so raggedly insufficient that it ought to outrage the sense of decency of a Western humanity.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore - Never in her life had she been subjected to such an outrage, never had she been so deeply insulted....
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - That you [pg 074] should utter a word about her is an outrage, and I won't permit it!”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - So, in his speech to the Legislature in November, he protested against the outrage.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë - From every point on the compass there was nothing but torture and murder and outrage.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
