The term “values” appears in literature with an astonishing variety of meanings, frequently shifting between moral ideals, personal worth, and even material or quantitative measures. In some texts, authors employ “values” to denote the cherished or ideal qualities that guide individual behavior—often in the realm of ethics or aesthetics, as seen when moral values are interrogated and redefined ([1], [2], [3]). Meanwhile, other works extend the term into economic or transactional contexts, where “values” quantify exchange, such as in customs or currency comparisons ([4], [5]). Additionally, philosophical treatises, particularly those of Nietzsche, use “values” in a broader, abstract sense, proposing ideas like the “transvaluation of all values” to challenge and reconstruct established moral orders ([6], [7], [8]). This range—from the personal and intimate to the systematic and theoretical—demonstrates literature’s dynamic engagement with the concept as both a marker of human aspiration and an instrument for critiquing societal norms.