Literary notes about Reparation (AI summary)
The term “reparation” in literature serves as a versatile marker of compensation and atonement, appearing in contexts that range from legal and economic frameworks to personal and moral redress. In some works it underscores severe penalties meted out for injustice—sometimes as rigid legal or financial obligations imposed by state or treaty ([1], [2], [3], [4])—while in other narratives it encapsulates intimate acts of contrition or attempts to restore honor in personal relationships ([5], [6], [7], [8]). Authors also employ the term metaphorically, imbuing it with symbolic weight as a means of rectifying past wrongs or rebalancing moral order ([9], [10], [11], [12], [13]). This multiplicity of usage highlights the enduring relevance of reparation as both a social construct and a deeply personal endeavor.
- I limit myself to three great changes which are necessary for the economic life of Europe, relating to Reparation, to Coal and Iron, and to Tariffs.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - Any further economy she can effect in the use of imported commodities, and any further stimulation of exports will then be available for Reparation.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - The Reparation Commission has no discretion to modify this.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - In France, the funds destined for the reparation of the high-roads are under the immediate direction of the executive power.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - She is sorry for what she has done, she has her mother’s permission and her father’s commands to make reparation.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - I know she must be pained to part with you, and I am willing to make any reparation in my power.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - These were great concessions;—but where Marianne felt that she had injured, no reparation could be too much for her to make.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - It was not too late to make reparation for that.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Cicero tells us that the laws recognise eight kinds of penalty,—damages, imprisonment, scourging, reparation, [874] disgrace, exile, death, slavery.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - It must not be confounded with the principle of Reparation, on which legal awards of damages are based.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick - As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, it is called without distinction, to make reparation or to be at the post .
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - ‘The duty done, and act of reparation performed, which can alone enable me to contemplate my fellow mortal, I shall be known no more.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - Reparation consisted in prayers for all the sins and faults of omission and commission, all the crimes of the world.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo by Juliette Drouet and Louis Guimbaud
