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Literary notes about Room (AI summary)

Throughout literature, the word "room" is employed not only as a physical setting but as a dynamic element that shapes mood and meaning. It can vividly describe a contrasting atmosphere—a whitewashed kitchen juxtaposed with a dark, beam-laden dining room [1]—or mark a character’s deliberate movement and isolation, as when a man steps into a dimly lit space with his candle [2]. Some authors imbue a room with almost inexpressible qualities, such as an odor defying language [3], while others use it to evoke intimacy or personal reclusion, whether in the secret sanctum of a hotel room [4] or in the remembered spaces that haunt the mind [5]. Even beyond its role as a mere backdrop, the room becomes a stage where political, social, and psychological dramas unfold—from whispered conspiracies in drawing-rooms [6] to the subtle shifts between public and private spheres.
  1. Because the kitchen was whitewashed, but the dining-room was dark wood from floor to ceiling, and across the ceiling there were heavy black beams.
    — from The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
  2. He advanced to the middle of the room, with the candle still in his hand: he looked about him—but he never looked back.
    — from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
  3. The first room exhales an odor for which there is no name in the language, and which should be called the odeur de pension .
    — from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
  4. When the others had gone away, when he and she were in their room in the hotel, then they would be alone together.
    — from Dubliners by James Joyce
  5. I have never forgotten that room; for when I have terrible dreams, it comes back, just as it was.
    — from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
  6. "Your room adjoins mine," said he, opening a door, "and mine opens into the drawing-room that we have just quitted.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

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