All 16 Uses of
convention
in
Man And Superman
- A man, by falling in love with her, or marrying her, is brought into conflict with the social convention which discountenances the woman.†
Chpt Ded.
- Now the conflicts of individuals with law and convention can be dramatized like all other human conflicts; but they are purely judicial; and the fact that we are much more curious about the suppressed relations between the man and the woman than about the relations between both and our courts of law and private juries of matrons, produces that sensation of evasion, of dissatisfaction, of fundamental irrelevance, of shallowness, of useless disagreeableness, of total failure to edify and…†
Chpt Ded.
- Nobody does: the successes such plays sometimes obtain are due to the incidental conventional melodrama with which the experienced popular author instinctively saves himself from failure.†
Chpt Ded.
- That the men, to protect themselves against a too aggressive prosecution of the women's business, have set up a feeble romantic convention that the initiative in sex business must always come from the man, is true; but the pretence is so shallow that even in the theatre, that last sanctuary of unreality, it imposes only on the inexperienced.†
Chpt Ded.
- Yet he is a true Don Juan, with a sense of reality that disables convention, defying to the last the fate which finally overtakes him.†
Chpt Ded. *
- The woman's need of him to enable her to carry on Nature's most urgent work, does not prevail against him until his resistance gathers her energy to a climax at which she dares to throw away her customary exploitations of the conventional affectionate and dutiful poses, and claim him by natural right for a purpose that far transcends their mortal personal purposes.†
Chpt Ded.
- …is the tragedy of irresolution; but all Shakespear's projections of the deepest humanity he knew have the same defect: their characters and manners are lifelike; but their actions are forced on them from without, and the external force is grotesquely inappropriate except when it is quite conventional, as in the case of Henry V. Falstaff is more vivid than any of these serious reflective characters, because he is self-acting: his motives are his own appetites and instincts and humors.†
Chpt Ded.
- …perception that righteousness is filthy rags, his scorn for Mr Legality in the village of Morality, his defiance of the Church as the supplanter of religion, his insistence on courage as the virtue of virtues, his estimate of the career of the conventionally respectable and sensible Worldly Wiseman as no better at bottom than the life and death of Mr Badman: all this, expressed by Bunyan in the terms of a tinker's theology, is what Nietzsche has expressed in terms of post-Darwinian,…†
Chpt Ded.
- The old lady from Colchester was right to sun her simple soul in the energetic radiance of Bradlaugh's genuine beliefs and disbeliefs rather than in the chill of such mere painting of light and heat as elocution and convention can achieve.†
Chpt Ded.
- He gets into intimate relations with them to study them, to strip the mask of convention from them, to surprise their inmost secrets, knowing that they have the power to rouse his deepest creative energies, to rescue him from his cold reason, to make him see visions and dream dreams, to inspire him, as he calls it.†
Chpt 1
- ...we must be conventional, Jack, or we are so cruelly, so vilely misunderstood.
Chpt 2 *conventional = normal (in behavior)
- All timid women are conventional: we must be conventional, Jack, or we are so cruelly, so vilely misunderstood.†
Chpt 2
- There are men who fall helplessly into the workhouse because they are good far nothing; but there are also men who are there because they are strongminded enough to disregard the social convention (obviously not a disinterested one on the part of the ratepayer) which bids a man live by heavy and badly paid drudgery when he has the alternative of walking into the workhouse, announcing himself as a destitute person, and legally compelling the Guardians to feed, clothe and house him…†
Chpt 3
- But here you escape the tyranny of the flesh; for here you are not an animal at all: you are a ghost, an appearance, an illusion, a convention, deathless, ageless: in a word, bodiless.†
Chpt 3
- They are not moral: they are only conventional.†
Chpt 3
- She will do just what she likes herself whilst insisting on everybody else doing what the conventional code prescribes.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
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(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting