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Literary notes about shared (AI summary)

The word “shared” is deployed widely in literature to underscore unity, common experience, or mutual distribution—whether of emotions, physical goods, or fate. In sociological or philosophical texts, as in [1] and [2], it expresses the existence of common traits or interests among disparate entities, thereby establishing a basis for social cohesion. Historical narratives, like [3] and [4], use “shared” to describe the division of tangible rewards or plunder, while in poetic and fictional works it conveys the joining of hearts and destinies, as seen in the emotional connections of [5], [6], and [7]. Moreover, its usage implies both voluntary and involuntary connections—from allies sharing a meal in [8] or a room in [9] to characters united by a shared fate, as in [10] and [11]. Across genres, “shared” consistently functions as a marker of commonality, binding characters, ideas, or experiences together in a manner that is both literal and metaphorical.
  1. A similarity so widely shared might serve as a common basis of each with every possible other.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  2. A mere source of being would not deserve to be called father, unless it shared its creatures' nature and therefore their interests.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  3. 21 In the lucrative provincial employments, the minister shared with the governor the spoils of the people.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  4. According to this book the plunder was shared, of which he had a fifth for his trouble.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  5. May those who shared in this day’s delight Through countless autumns enjoy like felicity.
    — from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems
  6. Their affectionate mother shared all their grief; she remembered what she had herself endured on a similar occasion, five and twenty years ago.
    — from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  7. What she and I have shared.”
    — from Bliss, and other stories by Katherine Mansfield
  8. he shared his supper [68] and his fire with all who accompanied him: he went so far as to make 275 those eat whom he saw in need of it."
    — from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
  9. He was wakened by a flare of candle in the room he shared with his brothers.
    — from The Best Short Stories of 1917, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  10. The unhappy hero, fled, or shared his fate.
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  11. All who had connections with him Page 46 shared the same fate.
    — from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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