Literary notes about barrier (AI summary)
The word "barrier" in literature functions on multiple levels, often signifying a physical blockade as well as a metaphorical divide. It can denote tangible obstacles like mountains or fortifications that restrict movement or access [1, 2, 3], while also symbolizing the social, emotional, or ideological separations between characters or groups [4, 5, 6]. Authors employ it to illustrate internal struggles—whether the invisible impediments to concentration or moral limits that characters face [7, 8]—or to represent the restrictive forces of society, such as status, nationality, or cultural differences [9, 10, 11]. In this way, "barrier" encapsulates not only the obstacles that individuals must overcome in the physical world but also the intangible boundaries that shape human relationships and experiences [12, 13, 14].
- This Agra treasure intervened like an impassable barrier between us.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle - There goes a great mountain barrier from northeast to southwest, which divides the Great Svithjod from other kingdoms.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson - We have a barrier of mountains to the south-west and higher mountains to the south.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Between the Marchioness and the natural and tender regard of mother for children, there was that cruel barrier placed of difference of faith.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - She already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any barrier except the barrier of his own will.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - This is verily a proof of what a barrier poverty and wealth set between man and man.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao - If any invisible barrier rose in the path of my concentration, I would meditate at the guru's feet.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - Should he be so hopeful of escaping detection as to cast such fears aside, the next barrier that meets him is regard for his honour.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer - Poland is no great country, and, as rich In men and means, will but few acres spare To lie beneath her barrier mountains bare.
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca - God would not have permitted her to love George Selby as she did, and him to love her, if it was right for society to raise up a barrier between them.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner - The Internet has removed one barrier (distance) but with that comes the barrier of language.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert - I burst my way through every barrier, up to the very roots of my prick.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous - Being alone, and conscious two yards of loose earth was the sole barrier between us, I said to myself—“I’ll have her in my arms again!
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - It was an effort of unequaled power, sweeping down, like a very tornado, every opposing barrier, whether of sentiment or opinion.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
