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Literary notes about faction (AI summary)

Writers deploy the term "faction" to denote groups of individuals unified by specific beliefs, ambitions, or loyalties, often highlighting internal divisions within a larger community. In historical and political narratives, it serves as a marker for rival power blocs and competing interests—for instance, when a political group is blamed for causing discontent or even upheaval ([1], [2], [3]). In literary dramas, the word takes on a more personal hue, illustrating how allegiance to a particular group or ideology can lead to betrayal or conflict, as seen when characters are defined by their affiliation to a rival camp ([4], [5], [6]). Even in descriptions of societal structures or religious disputes, "faction" effectively encapsulates the struggles wrought by divergent perspectives that fracture unity ([7], [8], [9]).
  1. The Same Subject Continued (The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection) FEDERALIST No. 11.
    — from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison
  2. He will find a sure resource in the real weight and influence of the crown, when it is not suffered to become an instrument in the hands of a faction.
    — from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
  3. But let him be who or what he will, he abets a faction that is driving hard Page 493 to the ruin of his country.
    — from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
  4. By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  5. If’t be so, Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong’d; His madness is poor Hamlet’s enemy.
    — from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
  6. I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  7. Since the death of the younger Theodosius, the domestic repose of Constantinople had never been interrupted by war or faction.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  8. The Same Subject Continued (The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection) From the Daily Advertiser.
    — from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison
  9. In red shirts and smocks, as Assassins and Faction of the Stranger, they flit along there; red baleful Phantasmagory, towards the land of Phantoms.
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

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