Literary notes about fruition (AI summary)
Writers use "fruition" to evoke the moment of completion, fulfillment, or ripening in both tangible and abstract contexts. In some works, it marks the culminating point of personal development or experience, as when a boy’s training reaches its full fruition [1] or when experiences come to their natural completion [2]. In other contexts, the term conveys the idea of a plan or desire reaching its destined end, whether it be in political, intellectual, or spiritual realms—for instance, as a metaphor for the fruition of democratic ideals [3] or the realization of one’s hopes and wishes [4]. In addition, literary works sometimes mix the literal with the symbolic, linking fruition to the ripening of natural processes or the ultimate outcome of spiritual karma [5]. This multifaceted use underscores its capacity to suggest both inevitability and fulfillment, enriching the narrative with a sense of final, transformative achievement.
- At a picnic my boyhood training reaches its full fruition: "Eat what is set before you and ask no questions."
— from Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson - Experiences are had under conditions of such constraint that they throw little or no light upon the normal course of an experience to its fruition.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - They want something productive and substantial in their pleasures; they want to mix actual fruition with their joy.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville - I knew it, I felt it to be the letter of my hope, the fruition of my wish, the release from my doubt, the ransom from my terror.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - Thou must have attained the Sudra’s estate by reason of the fruition of thine own past karma.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1
