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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.
  1. 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
  2. The kitchen chimney was made on an antique model.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. He thought her a most extraordinary young woman; in her temper, manners, mind, a model of female excellence.
    — from Persuasion by Jane Austen
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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

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