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Literary notes about View (AI summary)

The word "view" carries a rich variety of roles in literature, often blurring the line between the literal and the metaphorical. It can signify a physical perspective—a scene or landscape seen through a window or in a natural setting, as when characters literally observe their surroundings ([1], [2], [3])—or it can evoke an internal, conceptual standpoint, reflecting an individual's opinions or the framework from which events are interpreted ([4], [5], [6]). Moreover, "view" is employed to illustrate specific angles of argument or interpretation, whether in discussions of political strategy, philosophical outlooks, or even personal judgments ([7], [8], [9]). In this way, the term enriches narratives by merging tangible observations with abstract insights.
  1. There was a spot there which was quite closed in and hidden from view by large trees; and to this spot the children used to come to me.
    — from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  2. I was taken to my room; it was large and on the first story, with two windows from which I had a very fine view.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  3. First, close the eye so the tears will accumulate, these may wash the foreign body into plain view so that it may be easily removed.
    — from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America
  4. But we have to consider, not what led them to desire the view, but whether their arguments for it are valid.
    — from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell
  5. But to do this we must take a long breath, and we must first of all go back once again to an earlier point of view.
    — from The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  6. The statement in the text differs from these in holding fast to the objective point of view.
    — from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
  7. The final end of life is fixed; given a state framed with this end in view, not even minor details are to be altered.
    — from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
  8. But Heaven forsakes not thee: o'er yonder sands Soon shall thou view the scattered Trojan bands
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  9. Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle—but that is not the change I had in view for you.
    — from Emma by Jane Austen

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