Literary notes about unified (AI summary)
In literature, the term unified is often employed to indicate the bringing together of disparate elements into a coherent whole. It appears in discussions of human behavior as disparate reactions coalesce into a single, integrated response [1] and in political contexts where an area is merged into a consolidated state [2]. Philosophical and analytical texts harness the word to denote systems or bodies of thought that achieve a singular, consistent structure [3, 4], while creative narratives use it to describe how characters, plot, or thematic elements are woven together to form an integrated design [5, 6]. Across varied contexts—from social and political commentary to artistic composition—the notion of unification captures the essence of connectivity and cohesiveness.
- These two diverse reactions which are independent of each other are with human beings generally integrated into a unified response.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Cesare Borgia was considered cruel; notwithstanding, his cruelty reconciled the Romagna, unified it, and restored it to peace and loyalty.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli - The two notions would have the same content—the maximally unified content of fact, namely—but their time-relations would be positively reversed.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - There are general principles at work in it, and these can be formulated in “rules,” which rules can be systematised or unified.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle - If it was a conjunction of forces, physical and chemical, what held these forces unified, and for what purpose were they unified?
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - Both plot and characterization are more closely unified.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson
