Literary notes about Sufferer (AI summary)
The term "sufferer" in literature is employed with remarkable versatility, spanning physical affliction, moral affliction, and even philosophical contemplation. Authors often use it to denote a character enduring tangible hardships, as seen when a patient is carefully tended to after injury [1, 2, 3], or when inflicted wounds and symbolic marks are described in evocative detail [4, 5]. At the same time, many writers adopt the term to evoke the emotional or existential plight of individuals, portraying them as objects of compassion or introspection [6, 7], while others even reflect upon suffering as an inherent aspect of the human condition [8, 9, 10]. Thus, by focusing on both the corporeal and the abstract dimensions of pain, literary texts enrich the concept of suffering and invite readers to contemplate its broader implications [11, 12].
- A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at the bedside of the sufferer.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - The sufferer was immediately taken to his room, and though he partially regained consciousness, he lay long in a semi-dazed condition.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Pending his arrival the scout should remember to treat the sufferer for shock as well as to dress the wound.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - The sufferer is dragged by the hair of the head to a tree, to which a lock of the hair is nailed.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston - For that purpose he orders them to fetch a tough creeper from the forest, and with it he binds the hands and feet of the sufferer on her back.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer - Am I, in my blackness, the sole sufferer?
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois - Thus the poor sufferer tried to comfort others and herself.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - For over twenty years I’ve been a great sufferer.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery - As to the youthful sufferer, he weathered each storm like a hero.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - Pride is a consciousness of one’s being himself an actor or sufferer in life.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - If the sufferer and the oppressed man were to lose his belief in his right to contemn the Will to Power, his position would be desperate.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche - He recognises himself, his will, in every being, and consequently also in the sufferer.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
