Literary notes about makes (AI summary)
In literature, the word "makes" functions as a versatile causative verb that links actions, qualities, and conditions to their effects. Authors use it to denote transformation, as when a specific circumstance “makes” someone act in a particular way or when a quality is ascribed to an object, thereby creating or revealing an inherent characteristic ([1], [2], [3]). It is also employed to underscore the inevitability of consequences or to highlight the flawed nature of actions, such as when characters are driven to error or change by external forces ([4], [5], [6]). Moreover, "makes" is used in both literal and figurative contexts—from describing physical impacts like producing a sound or a reaction ([7], [8]) to articulating abstract ideas, such as causality within societal or philosophical frameworks ([9], [10]). Overall, its flexible use enables writers to express a range of relationships between cause and effect, imbuing texts with nuance and precision.
- That idea, when conjoined with the idea of any object, makes no addition to it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - This judgement of the heavens that makes us tremble Touches us not with pity.
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare - That is the moral reason which makes love the strongest of the passions.
— from On Love by Stendhal - Eddius makes the same mistake.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Saint the Venerable Bede - At last the bubble breaks; There's always some mistake a rascal makes.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine by Jean de La Fontaine - “I agree that the author’s fundamental idea is a true one,” he said to me feverishly, “but that only makes it more awful.
— from The possessed : by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - She points to the door with a sharp, imperious gesture; so rapid that the silken drapery about her arm makes a swooping sound as she lifts her hand.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. Braddon - It makes a stranger stare.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville - That there are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them?
— from The Republic by Plato - The same promise, then, which binds them to obedience, ties them down to a particular person, and makes him the object of their allegiance.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
