Literary notes about compulsory (AI summary)
In literature, “compulsory” is frequently employed to denote an imposition of duty or necessity that is both literal and metaphorical. Authors invoke the term to describe conditions where certain actions or behaviors are mandated by law or custom, as seen in references to enforced labor or obligatory military service ([1], [2]), but they also extend its reach to the realms of education and social structures ([3], [4], [5]). In some works, the word underscores the tension between free will and systemic obligation, hinting at the constraints imposed by society or authority ([6], [7]). Whether describing the strictures of heraldic rules or the unyielding force of traditional practices, “compulsory” encapsulates the idea of enforced adherence and the inherent conflict between autonomy and imposed order ([8], [9]).
- On other estates the serfs’ compulsory labor was commuted for a quitrent.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - When military service is compulsory, the burden is indiscriminately and equally borne by the whole community.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville - The only instruction in practical military exercises, which is compulsory upon all, is that in drill.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - If necessary, education should even be made compulsory.
— from Extracts from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá and from the Letters of Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice on Scholarship by Universal House of Justice - Attendance at school may be either compulsory or voluntary.
— from Boy Labour and Apprenticeship by Reginald Arthur Bray - It is merely a hypothesis that even our willing is compulsory in every case.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - Instinctive society, with its compulsory affections, is of course deeper and more elementary than any free or intellectual union.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - There is, however, one position in which the use of difference marks is compulsory.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies - The most favourable obstacles and remedies of modernity: [Pg 104] (1) Compulsory military service with real wars in which all joking is laid aside.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche
