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]).
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - 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 - 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 - 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