Literary notes about independent (AI summary)
In literature the word "independent" operates on several levels, serving both as a descriptor of character and as a marker of structural or conceptual separation. It is often used to extol moral or intellectual self-reliance, as in the portrayal of a woman guided by her own principles [1] or a spirit untethered by convention [2, 3]. At the same time, it designates political or cultural autonomy—whether referring to a sovereign territory [4, 5] or an institution separated from external influence [6, 7]. The term also appears in more abstract or technical contexts to indicate components that function or exist apart from one another, be it in grammatical constructs [8, 9, 10] or in philosophical discussions regarding the nature of being and thought [11, 12]. This multiplicity of uses highlights the flexibility of "independent" as a concept that can denote self-sufficiency, separateness, or originality across a diverse range of literary and analytical domains [13, 14].
- I also suppose the husband to be virtuous; or she is still more in want of independent principles.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft - If I could believe it—my spirit, you know, is pretty independent.”
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - So, I hope you like my feeling independent; if you don’t, I can’t help it.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens - Zeln was a little independent German duchy, and the Duke of Zeln was its sovereign.
— from The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) - In 1849 the Mormons organized a “free and independent” government and erected the “State of Deseret,” with Brigham Young as its head.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain - V. The union and discipline of the Christian republic, which gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The Jewish people must become an independent nation, settled on the soil of their own land and leading the life of a normal people.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl - The two parts of this treatise are mutually complementary, but in a literary sense each is independent and self-contained.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle - In other words, the two clauses are grammatically independent , for neither of them modifies (or affects the meaning of) the other.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - In analysis, an independent element is mentioned by itself, and not as a part of the complete subject or the complete predicate.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - .That is, I am being itself, eternal, self-existent, independent, infinite; without beginning, end, or change; and the source of all other beings.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Language has a structure independent of things.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx - The principle is one self-contained thing; its use is another and independent thing.
— from How We Think by John Dewey
