Literary notes about exclusion (AI summary)
In literature, the word "exclusion" is a versatile tool for emphasizing the deliberate omission or marginalization of ideas, characters, or groups. Writers employ it to focus narrative attention on one element by deliberately sidelining all others, as when historical accounts zero in on a single event while discarding surrounding details [1]. In social and familial contexts, exclusion is used to demarcate boundaries, whether to establish a hierarchy of inheritance or to highlight social divisions [2][3]. Philosophical and aesthetic works utilize it to distinguish one mode of thought or experience from another, thus sharpening debate or framing a critique [4][5]. Moreover, its application extends to satirical and legal texts, where exclusion hints at both intentional and systematic suppression, revealing tensions between inclusion and isolation in various spheres of life [6][7][8].
- The sudden collapse of the rebellion monopolized attention to the exclusion of almost everything else.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - Edmund did not wonder that such should be his father's feelings, nor could he regret anything but the exclusion of the Grants.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - If she had a son, that son would be the heir, to the exclusion of her cousin Magdalen.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - The division of the soul throws a new light on our exclusion of imitation.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - Each form of Art with which we come in contact dominates us for the moment to the exclusion of every other form.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde - He spoke in the singular number, to the express exclusion of Eugene.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens - This was carried out in two ways: first, by exclusion, and then by inclusion.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis - Absolute exclusion of mechanical and materialistic interpretations.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche
