Literary notes about transform (AI summary)
Throughout literature, "transform" operates as a multi-faceted verb that captures both tangible and metaphorical change. At times it describes dramatic bodily or character alterations, evoking vivid images such as becoming a beast amid revelry ([1], [2]) or even reshaping oneself into something unrecognizable ([3], [4]). In other instances, it conveys the evolution of ideas, attitudes, or environments—shifting aesthetic judgments into new forms ([5]) or turning a barren desert into a flourishing garden with modern ingenuity ([6]). Philosophers and poets alike employ it to articulate transitions that are as profound as they are varied, whether altering perceptions, capacities, or entire life trajectories ([7], [8], [9]). This versatility makes "transform" a powerful tool in literature for expressing the dynamic and often unpredictable nature of change.
- that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare - that we should with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit and William Shakespeare - I transform you, for the time being, into a respectable lady.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - Transform me, then, and to your pow'r I'll yield.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - Reason may well outflank and transform æsthetic judgments, but can never undermine them.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Wherever the moderns appear with our inventions, we transform the desert into a garden.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl - It was originally introduced in order to transform the simple possession of a thing (in bonis habere) into Roman proprietorship.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - "To redeem all the past, and to transform every 'it was' into 'thus would I have it'—that alone would be my salvation!"
— from Ecce Homo by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - In this way we force him to transform his repetition into a recollection.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
