Wantonness is employed in literature to evoke a sense of unrestrained, often transgressive behavior, whether in the realm of physical desire, moral decay, or even rebellious defiance. In some works, it criticizes passions—as when lust is condemned as a form of wantonness that offends reason [1]—while in others it captures a vibrant, untamed spirit, suggesting both the playful excess of youthful exuberance and the darker edge of cruelty or indiscipline [2, 3, 4]. At times, wantonness carries the weight of moral judgment, marking acts that stray from societal norms, and elsewhere it becomes a vivid metaphor for the chaos of unbridled emotion and the loss of restraint [5, 6, 7]. Such varied usage underscores how authors across different eras tap into the term’s layered connotations to both celebrate and caution against the abandon it describes [8, 9].