Literary notes about away (AI summary)
In literature, the word "away" is a versatile term that conveys both physical motion and more abstract transitions. Often it marks an act of leaving or removal, as when characters decide to depart—“I'm going away, Julia” ([1]) or when someone is commanded to leave immediately, as in “Get away!” ([2]). It also signifies the disappearance or dissolution of something, whether by death or fading into insignificance, as seen when a family line “passed away” ([3]) or an odor “passed away” into the distance ([4]). Additionally, "away" can denote the act of discarding or separating, like throwing objects aside ([5], [6]), and sometimes even policies or beliefs are dismissed (“do away with the word ‘Ideal’” [7]). This multifaceted usage enriches narratives by subtly indicating change, distance, or loss across diverse contexts.
- “I'm going away, Julia,” he said, “for a few days.”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser - “Get away!”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - With his death the line of Lenoncourt-Givrys proper passed away, for he would have been their heir.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Cerfberr and Christophe - Then the ghost of that unforgettably strange odor passed away and was lost among the leagues of tenantless forest beyond.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood - And now he was compelled to throw them away.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - Take the book away with you, and read it.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - It were the thing to begin this criticism in suchwise as to do away with the word " Ideal ": a criticism of desiderata.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche
