Literary notes about antagonistic (AI summary)
Literary works deploy "antagonistic" to evoke conflict or opposition between forces, personalities, and ideologies. In some texts, it describes a deliberate counterposition or resistance to established authority, as when masterships are presented as opposing royalty [1], or when rational thought is pitted against its opposing mystic and irrational impulses [2]. Authors also use the term to reveal natural or social tensions, whether in debates over ethical values [3] or in character portrayals that emphasize a hardened indifference and seething rivalry [4]. At other times, discussions of competing societal forces employ "antagonistic" to capture the persistent, often irreversible, clash between ideologies or practices, as seen in contrasts between cooperation and competition [5]. This usage imbues narrative and analytical work with a sense of dynamic opposition that drives conflict and evolution.
- There was reason in the claim that these grand masterships were antagonistic to royalty.
— from The American Nation: A History — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Edward Potts Cheyney - He who urges rational thought forward, thereby also drives its antagonistic power—mysticism and foolery of every kind—to new feats of strength.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - [Pg 122] is imagined, the former concepts may even be antagonistic to Nature's concepts of good and evil.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche - Her nature had gone hard and smiling in its own arrogance, in its own antagonistic indifference to the rest of them.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - Are co-operation and competition mutually antagonistic terms?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
