novels and poems where peple are held captive against their will!

[k.brignell]

hey
does anyone know of any novels and/or poems where peple are held captive aginst their will? (prefarably in classical or renowned literature) I need to refrence some for an essay, cheers

[FalseReality]

I would say Dante's The Inferno is chock full of people held captive against their will.

Others include

A Tale of Two Cities
The Plague
The Stranger
1984
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


Just a few. I'm sure you could expand the definition of "captive" to include many more.

[k.brignell]

thanks, I had not even thought of Inferno, despite it being one of the most influential peices of literature I have ever read! Its perfect! Need a few more if anyone can think of them

[billl]

Rapunzel might be a good one for an essay.

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler is another one I thought of.

[PoeticPassions]

I would say that Paradise Lost by Milton is like that... in a sense... Satan is held captive by Hell, for wherever he goes, Hell follows.

A Clockwork Orange a good chunk of the novella is about being held against one's will and doing things against one's will.

The House of the Dead by Dostoevsky

[Helga]

the collector by john fowles, he is one of my favourite author and I read this book for school a few years ago and loved it. I was the only one who saw the beauty in Clegg, the other students thought I was crazy.

[Scheherazade]

the collector by john fowles, he is one of my favourite author and I read this book for school a few years ago and loved it.I would second this. It is a captivating read.

Also Count of Monte Cristo.

[kelby_lake]

Huis Clos by Sartre :)

[Kafka's Crow]

To Althea, from Prison

by Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)

WHEN Love with unconfinèd wings
Hovers within my gates,
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at the grates;
When I lie tangled in her hair
And fetter'd to her eye,
The birds that wanton in the air
Know no such liberty.

When flowing cups run swiftly round
With no allaying Thames,
Our careless heads with roses bound,
Our hearts with loyal flames;
When thirsty grief in wine we steep,
When healths and draughts go free—
Fishes that tipple in the deep
Know no such liberty.

When, like committed linnets, I
With shriller throat shall sing
The sweetness, mercy, majesty,
And glories of my King;
When I shall voice aloud how good
He is, how great should be,
Enlargèd winds, that curl the flood,
Know no such liberty.

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.

[wessexgirl]

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson.

[General Urko]

"The Pit and the Pendulum" & "The Cask of Amontillado" by Poe
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Odyssey

[amalia1985]

The Black Arrow by Robert Lewis Stevenson
The Man In The Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

[bounty]

a couple of my favorites, kidnapped, and the prisoner of zenda.

[DisPater]

The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek, can be considered as being about a captive person.

[mono]

A few that come to mind:
The Diary of Anne Frank
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Crito by Plato (non-fiction philosophy)
many short stories by Edgar Allan Poe ("The Cask of Amontillado," particularly)
I cannot recall the name of the tale, but the one of Loki held prisoner for punishment, tied to a boulder with a snake slithering above him
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

[Dark Muse]

The Three Muskeeteers has some instances of people being held captive
Kidnapped by Stevenson
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
A Clockwork Orange
and in a way The Magus by John Fowles (an extrodinary book)
The Yellow Wallpaper I think could also work

That is all I can think of out of hand

[papayahed]

Misery by Stephen King

[JuniperWoolf]

Some halocaust books would fit. I think that I've only read two really good ones.

Night - Elie Weisel
Maus - Art Spiegelman (technically a comic, but a VERY good one)