Literary Question About A Specific Circumstance

[Ethical Edward]

Since everyone was so helpful in finding me some fantastic poets I was hoping all the far wiser people who know literature could help me again. I'm looking for a specific circumstance in novels, poems, plays, etc. I want a man who had it all like a king or anyone who had it really good and it all fell apart on him. Like a king who was imprisioned unjustly or made a slave. Last year at this time I was a king in my own way and a year later life made me a slave so I wouldn't mind reading someone else even fictional who suffered the same injustice.

 

[drew70]

You might try the Book of Job in the Old Testament. Kind of depressing but it has a happy ending.

 

[Deadsea7777]

Since everyone was so helpful in finding me some fantastic poets I was hoping all the far wiser people who know literature could help me again. I'm looking for a specific circumstance in novels, poems, plays, etc. I want a man who had it all like a king or anyone who had it really good and it all fell apart on him. Like a king who was imprisioned unjustly or made a slave. Last year at this time I was a king in my own way and a year later life made me a slave so I wouldn't mind reading someone else even fictional who suffered the same injustice.

You can read "The man who would be king" by R. Kipling

Also not fictional but anyway, you can read about the dinosaurs, they had it all for something like a 150 million years, and then a meteorite blow it all off.
Or did it?, because bird according to the most recent theories are dinosaurs.

Try to find a way out. Do not go extintc.

 

[Ethical Edward]

You might try the Book of Job in the Old Testament. Kind of depressing but it has a happy ending.

I'm an atheist but I still thank you for the recommendation 😎

 

[Babbles]

I'm always ready with a cliche'

Not one of the "wiser" here, any number of people are probably reading this and just waiting for someone to mention good ole "Shakes'"
King Lear.... (Though I guess not really a jesting matter, Ethical Ed....)

Or Richard III, an ultimate in negative self-fulfilling prophecy.
--Oh, but then there's Othello...

And I guess it'd be nice if we get the point of these pictures sooner & realize there's no reason to fall
I'm sure you'll be up & running soon yourself!! --See, more cliche's!!

 

[Ethical Edward]

King Lear and Richard III gotcha Babbles but I might need some cliff notes!

 

[ChosenofMystra]

I was going to say King Lear and Othello as well, but it seems others have beaten me to the punch.

Hmmmm.....I'm really more of a postmodern, surrealist literature guy but let me think.....I suppose Macbeth might be one to look into, or even Hamlet for that matter. Sorry I can't be more helpful 🙂

OH! OH! What about The Odyssey? He starts out a king and nearly ends up loosing it all.

 

[chicago]

Edward, your post reminded me a bit of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. He's the same guy that wrote The Three Muskateers. The book is basically about a guy that is wrongly imprisoned for another man's crime. He gets a life sentence, but manages to escape by digging a tunnel into another inmate's cell. When that inmate dies, he crawls into the body bag and is thrown into the Mediterranean Sea. He reinvents himself and creates a new life. The rest of the book tells of how he gains revenge on those that wronged him.

 

[Ethical Edward]

Edward, your post reminded me a bit of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. He's the same guy that wrote The Three Muskateers. The book is basically about a guy that is wrongly imprisoned for another man's crime. He gets a life sentence, but manages to escape by digging a tunnel into another inmate's cell. When that inmate dies, he crawls into the body bag and is thrown into the Mediterranean Sea. He reinvents himself and creates a new life. The rest of the book tells of how he gains revenge on those that wronged him.

That's not me Mairead. I had it all last year at this time. A girl, kids who loved me and the hope of a new life and after a while due to one reason or another I saw that it was nothing but a house of cards. The love the showed me because abuse and I had to let her go. Nobody wronged me but the failure I see when I look in the mirror to shave my face. There will be no revenge but I sometimes believe in god now and that he is getting revenge on me for not believing he exists.

 

[chicago]

That's not me Mairead. I had it all last year at this time. A girl, kids who loved me and the hope of a new life and after a while due to one reason or another I saw that it was nothing but a house of cards. The love the showed me because abuse and I had to let her go. Nobody wronged me but the failure I see when I look in the mirror to shave my face. There will be no revenge but I sometimes believe in god now and that he is getting revenge on me for not believing he exists.

Oh ok. You said "imprisoned unjustly" and that's what I thought of. Sorry.