Literary notes about inevitable (AI summary)
Writers deploy the word “inevitable” to evoke a sense of natural progression and inescapable fate, whether describing the downfall of civilizations, personal tragedies, or the unfolding of history. In historical narratives, the term underscores processes that unfold as a necessary consequence of preceding events—as seen when Rome’s decline or revolutionary changes are portrayed as fated ([1], [2]). In literature with personal drama, it captures moments when characters yield to outcomes beyond their control, such as fated decisions or looming partings ([3], [4]). Philosophical and sociopolitical works similarly use “inevitable” to emphasize logical certainty and the natural order, implying that some events, whether moral decay or collective misfortune, must occur ([5], [6], [7]).
- But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx - Then she yielded to the inevitable and said tartly: “Very well, she can go, since nothing else ‘ll please you.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - She could not guess that that expression arose from the first idea that presented itself to Vronsky—that a duel was now inevitable.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - This defect is inevitable, but of little importance.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Many of his seeming errors are almost inevitable from the close condensation of his matter.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - For evils are of two kinds; either they are possible only, at most probable; or they are inevitable.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer
