All 3 Uses of
perspective
in
The Mill on the Floss
- …country could never again be what it used to be; but Mr. Deane, attached to a firm of which the returns were on the increase, naturally took a more lively view of the present, and had some details to give concerning the state of the imports, especially in hides and spelter, which soothed Mr. Tulliver's imagination by throwing into more distant perspective the period when the country would become utterly the prey of Papists and Radicals, and there would be no more chance for honest men.†
Chpt 1.7
- Mrs. Tulliver's thoughts had been temporarily diverted from the quarrel with Mrs. Glegg by millinery and maternal cares, but now the great theme of the bonnet was thrown into perspective, and the children were out of the way, yesterday's anxieties recurred.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- Every other thought or care was thrown into unmarked perspective by the certainty that Maggie must be his.†
Chpt 6.13 *
Definitions:
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(perspective as in: Look at it from her perspective) a particular way of seeing or thinking about things
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(perspective as in: Keep it in perspective) a sensible view of a situation that considers its different parts in a balanced way