Literary notes about attachment (AI summary)
In literature, "attachment" is used as a versatile term that spans both literal and metaphorical meanings. It frequently describes deep emotional bonds—whether the affectionate connection felt by a character toward friends and loved ones ([1], [2], [3], [4]) or the devoted loyalty among groups and nations ([5], [6]). The word also appears in contexts that emphasize physical or structural connections, such as the attachment of bodily parts or mechanisms ([7], [8], [9]), and even in allegorical or philosophical discussions of human ties and duty ([10], [11]). In these varied usages, attachment serves as a key motif to express the complexity of both personal relationships and pragmatic connections within society.
- It was to those little Baltimore boys that I felt the strongest attachment.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass - Our attachment was strong, and I greatly dreaded the separation.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass - Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton’s attachment more than mine.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - I believed that I was nearer to his heart than any other friend, and my own heart warmed with attachment to him.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - Every citizen of the United States transfuses his attachment to his little republic in the common store of American patriotism.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - Their attachment to the law of Moses was equal to their detestation of foreign religions.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Other physiologists attribute the result to the close attachment and freely intercommunicating blood-vessels between the modified embryo and mother.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - In the eighties this concern began the manufacture of a closed ball, or globular, roaster with gas-heater attachment.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Lingual attachment of styloglossus muscle, with part of the gustatory nerve seen above it.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop - These historians have been suspected, but I think without reason, of an attachment to the Novatian doctrine.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Yet must be practised even those high works In yielding up attachment, and all fruit Produced by works.
— from The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata)
