Literary notes about deranged (AI summary)
Literary authors employ "deranged" in a variety of ways that stretch from describing psychological instability to conveying a broader sense of disarray in objects and institutions. In works of fiction, the term may indicate a state in which the mind becomes unstable—whether it is a character’s reason enduring turmoil yet remaining intact ([1]), a son’s mind affected by unknown causes ([2]), or a man driven to madness by love ([3]). At the same time, "deranged" is frequently extended to denote the breakdown of systems, such as disrupted finances ([4]) or malfunctioning machinery ([5]), and even chaotic social or political affairs ([6]). By using the term in these diverse contexts, authors underscore both personal and institutional destabilization, highlighting the pervasive impact of disorder on human life and society.
- He called this “writing to her.” It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - He could not imagine what should have deranged his son’s mind.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day - He grew deranged through love, and fancied himself possessed of two heads.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - The wealth of the country would, therefore, be put in jeopardy, and all the course of its industry and property deranged, for no end whatever.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 401, March 1849 by Various - The furniture was greatly deranged and broken.
— from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce - The management and economy of the king enabled him to make great improvements, besides settling the deranged finances of the kingdom.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of NapoleonFor the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord
