Literary notes about coerced (AI summary)
In literature, “coerced” is employed to illustrate a wide spectrum of compulsion, ranging from personal defiance to broader societal manipulation. Authors often use the term to convey a character’s internal struggle against external pressure—for instance, when an individual steadfastly refuses subjugation ([1]) or finds themselves forced into actions against their will ([2], [3]). This term can also evoke darker consequences, as when coercion unwittingly leads to fatal outcomes ([4]) or even becomes a metaphor for transforming states in nature ([5]). In political and social narratives, “coerced” underscores the act of imposing uniformity or compliance upon a community, highlighting an interplay between resistance and submission ([6], [7], [8]).
- She will not allow herself to be coerced."
— from The Passport by Richard Bagot - Logan was not a man to be coerced into an utterance by threats.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - No one can be coerced into marriage these days,” she added emphatically, as if attempts were being made to force her into an unhappy marriage.
— from The Motor Maids Across the Continent by Katherine Stokes - The Colonel was perhaps unaware that he had coerced his own wife into her grave.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin - In the case of the Carré machine, liquid water is, by removal of the atmospheric pressure, coerced, as it were, to take the gaseous form.
— from The Chemistry of Hat ManufacturingLectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association by Watson Smith - And when the Republic sought to suppress the Rebellion, it was replied, that a State could not be coerced.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various - Now, we hold that every soul shall be absolutely free,—that is, in its relations to other souls; it shall not be coerced by any other.
— from Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance by Ella Merchant - A man who has outgrown the State can no more be coerced into submission to its laws than can the fledgling be made to reënter its shell.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
