Literary notes about bigot (AI summary)
Across literary traditions, the word "bigot" emerges with a range of functions. In some works it serves as a proper name, as in the works of Shakespeare where characters like Bigot Salisbury or Bigot Prince Henry populate the stage ([1], [2], [3], [4]). In historical and satirical narratives, the term is wielded to characterize those who display obstinate and intolerant zeal—whether in religious or political matters—with figures described as a "religious bigot" or a "cruel bigot" embodying the perils of fanaticism ([5], [6], [7], [8], [9]). At times, the word assumes an ironic tone, highlighting the absurdity of rigid prejudice or the follies of dogmatic behavior, and even enters dialogue as a defiant self-description or casual epithet ([10], [11], [12], [13]). In this way, "bigot" functions not only as a marker of personal identity but also as a critical commentary on narrow-mindedness throughout the literary landscape.
- Another part of the battlefield Enter SALISBURY, PEMBROKE, and BIGOT SALISBURY.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - The orchard at Swinstead Abbey Enter PRINCE HENRY, SALISBURY, and BIGOT PRINCE HENRY.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - [Dies] Enter PEMBROKE, SALISBURY, and BIGOT SALISBURY.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - The DAUPHIN'S camp at Saint Edmundsbury Enter, in arms, LEWIS, SALISBURY, MELUN, PEMBROKE, BIGOT, and soldiers LEWIS.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - “I will give the hoary bigot no advantage over me; and for Rebecca, she hath not merited at my hand that I should expose rank and honour for her sake.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott - He was assassinated by a man whom he had never injured—by the most unscrupulous of all misguided men—a religious bigot.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of NapoleonFor the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord - In his way, Voltaire was a bigot, an intolerant bigot.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - A religious bigot at the head of an empire, is one of the greatest scourges which Heaven in its fury could have sent upon earth.
— from Superstition In All Ages (1732)Common Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' - However, the practice was continued, as might have been expected, by the dull bigot James the Second and his dull daughter Queen Anne.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer - I am no bigot!—or fool either.... August 23d.
— from A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson - I care not a jot whether this canting bigot acts in different colours to-day, whether he dresses in scarlet or dons the uniform of a hussar.
— from Ecce Homo by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - When I attempt to tell him (because if I were he I know very well what I should believe in) he calls me a pampered bigot.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James - The throne a bigot keep, a genius quit, Faithless through piety, and duped through wit?
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope