Both Uses of
paralysis
in
The Idiot
- "What could it have to do with me?" he said to himself again, and stopped as if rooted to the ground by a kind of paralysis of limb such as attacks people under the stress of some humiliating recollection.†
Chpt 2.5 *
- Strange things are going on in our so-called Holy Russia in this age of reform and great enterprises; this age of patriotism in which hundreds of millions are yearly sent abroad; in which industry is encouraged, and the hands of Labour paralyzed, etc.; there is no end to this, gentlemen, so let us come to the point.†
Chpt 2.8
Definitions:
-
(1)
(paralysis) loss of the ability to move the body or a part of it
or:
inability to act or make a decision - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)