Both Uses of
compulsion
in
The Notebook
- A compulsion had driven her here, and for the first time in three weeks the feeling was gone.
*compulsion = a strong (possibly uncontrollable) urge to do something
- The compulsion that had driven her here was gone now—she was glad for this—but she worried about the feelings that had taken its place, the stirrings that had begun to sift and swirl in her pores like gold dust in river pans.
compulsion = an urge, force, or requirement to do something
Definition:
a strong (possibly uncontrollable) urge to do something; or a force or a requirement that forces an action