Literary notes about treated (AI summary)
The word "treated" in literature functions as a versatile verb, employed to describe both tangible and abstract interactions. Authors use it to express the manner in which characters handle objects or relationships, as well as to signal the depth or style of discussion about a subject. In narratives, "treated" might reveal personal biases or attitudes—illustrated by characters questioning if someone was "treated her unfairly" ([1]) or expressing cruel or kind treatment in social interactions ([2], [3], [4]). In more expository or analytical texts, the term indicates how thoroughly a topic has been examined or presented, as when a subject is "treated so fully" by a scholar ([5]) or revisited later in a work ([6]). Even in historical or satirical contexts, "treated" helps convey a spectrum of human experience—from the ceremonial handling of objects ([7]) to the subtle commentary on societal inequalities ([8], [9]). Thus, across genres, "treated" enriches the narrative by marking the particular style or method of interaction, evaluation, or analysis that adds nuance to both character dynamics and thematic content.
- He wondered if he had treated her unfairly.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy - “No, my lord, of course not,” said York; “but he might get a place where appearance is not of much consequence, and still be well treated.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - But she is a most hospitable lady and treated us royally.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - In my old home I always knew that John and my master were my friends; but here, although in many ways I was well treated, I had no friend.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - This subject has been treated so fully by Professor Seligman in Chapter XL of his “Melanesians” that a reference here will suffice.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - [21] This question will be treated again in the conclusion of this work.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim - With the tools which we had brought with us we opened them, one by one, and treated them as we had treated those others in the old chapel.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker - [Pg 57] general no better treated than slaves; but no slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill - Have I not often told you that women in a free country are not to be treated with such arbitrary power?
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
