Literary notes about model (AI summary)
In literary works, "model" assumes a multifaceted role, serving as both a tangible design and an abstract standard. At times, authors use it to refer to a physical replica or blueprint—a structure fashioned after nature or a renowned design, as seen in architectural or mechanical contexts ([1], [2], [3]). In other instances, the term embodies an ideal to emulate, whether in moral behavior, artistic inspiration, or social systems, highlighting exemplary characters or methods to be followed ([4], [5], [6], [7]). Moreover, "model" can represent a theoretical pattern from which broader principles or governing structures are deduced—from philosophical treatises to practical guides ([8], [9], [10]). This versatility of the term enriches the narrative, bridging the concrete and the conceptual in literature.
- If we had to venture upon an architecture after the style of our own souls—(we are too cowardly for that!)—a labyrinth would have to be our model.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The kitchen chimney was made on an antique model.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - He knew as much about ship-building as about nearly everything else, and he had at first drawn the model of his ship on paper.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne - She got through her lessons as well as she could, and managed to escape reprimands by being a model of deportment.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott - Annetta is a quiet little puss and a model of good behavior, but there isn’t a shadow of orginality in her.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery - He thought her a most extraordinary young woman; in her temper, manners, mind, a model of female excellence.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen - They took the Jewish theocracy as their model of government and, in the measure that they patterned after a good model, they achieved good results.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - You may find a model of the lesser in the greater, I said; for they are necessarily of the same type, and there is the same spirit in both of them.
— from The Republic by Plato - If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill - The processes which served to form the first men would naturally be conceived on the same model.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim