The word “trapped” in literature conveys both tangible confinement and intangible predicaments. It appears in medieval narratives, where a knight might be “trapped in cloth of gold” to hint at lavish yet restrictive circumstances [1], and in modern tales, where characters find themselves ensnared by fate or their own actions, as with a sense of doomed inevitability [2, 3]. Its usage is versatile—ranging from literal entrapment on battlefields or in narrow city streets [4, 5] to metaphorical depictions of emotional or societal constraint, as in the depiction of being pinned down by circumstance [6, 7]. Even in explanatory prose that touches on natural processes or ironic predicaments [8, 9], the term “trapped” suggests a state where freedom is curtailed, inviting readers to reflect on the forces that bind them.