Both Uses
anarchy
in
Sula
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- Against her fairly modest claims to personal liberty are placed conventional and anarchic ones: Eva's physical sacrifice for economic freedom; Nel's accommodation to the protection marriage promises; Sula's resistance to either sacrifice or accommodation.†
Chpt Frwd.
- It is a more inviting embrace than Shadrack's organized public madness—it helps to unify the neighborhood until Sula's anarchy challenges it.†
Chpt Frwd. *
Definitions:
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(1)
(anarchy) the complete absence of political authority; or more generally, complete absence of order
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)