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Literary notes about thicket (AI summary)

In literature, the word "thicket" is employed not merely as a description of dense natural growth but also as a symbol of concealment, complexity, and transition. Authors use it to create settings that are both physically and metaphorically challenging—a place where characters hide, seek, or even lose themselves. For instance, a character might retreat behind a thicket to observe mysterious shapes [1] or dash into one to evade danger [2], while in other works, a thicket serves as a liminal space marking the boundary between known and unknown realms [3, 4]. In some narratives, it even stands as a metaphor for the intricacies of human thought and social entanglements [5], demonstrating its versatile and evocative presence across literary genres.
  1. Their shape was very singular and deformed, which a little discomposed me, so that I lay down behind a thicket to observe them better.
    — from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift
  2. I, however, darted back into the woods, before the ferocious hound could get hold of me, and buried myself in a thicket, where he lost sight of me.
    — from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
  3. She emerged from “the thicket”; she had still to cross a small lawn to regain the steps.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  4. Together!” cried Levin, and he ran with Laska into the thicket to look for the snipe.
    — from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy
  5. But be warned, oh seeker of knowledge, of the thicket of opinions and of arguing about words.
    — from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

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