Literary notes about Upheaval (AI summary)
Literary authors deploy "upheaval" to evoke sudden and transformative change, whether in the natural world or the realm of human affairs. It is used to describe dramatic physical events—ranging from the violent shaking of the earth [1, 2, 3] to the catastrophic disturbances caused by nature’s fury [4, 5]—as well as the disruptive shifts in society that signal political or cultural metamorphosis [6, 7, 8]. At the personal level, the term captures profound internal revolutions, where an individual’s emotions or beliefs are upended, often marking the birth of a new identity [9, 10, 11]. This layered use of the word underscores its capacity to denote both destruction and the promise of renewal.
- The Alps are more than an upheaval; they are a tearing and gashing of the earth’s surface.
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel - It was merely a natural phenomenon; as a result of the great upheaval, the waters were seeking their level and invading the lower tracts.
— from The Tremendous Event by Maurice Leblanc - At this single point in the interior there has been, in some far distant age, a great, sudden volcanic upheaval.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle - When a magic formula is spoken, a violent natural upheaval will take place.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - "Suppose one day some volcanic upheaval raises these two barriers back above the waves!"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - The Great War has brought about a wondrous upheaval in the society of the world.
— from The Real Jesus of the Four Gospels by John Birdseye Atwater - We live in the days of a great social upheaval.
— from The Alien Invasion by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins - And France, as a result of that upheaval of a well-organized minority, has been bound by Jewish control ever since.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous - It was a great shock to me to learn that I was to leave school, it seemed to be the most complete upheaval I had ever experienced.
— from Victor Victorious by Cecil Starr Johns - She knew that her entire upheaval, her taking up new ideas, her repudiating conventions had been inspired by a single factor.
— from Gargoyles by Ben Hecht - He could not think at all, he was stunned; yet he knew that in the mighty upheaval that had taken place in his soul, a new man had been born.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
