/lit/ - Literature

Philosophy or novels that specifically address the problem that arises when despite one's best efforts to improve his situation, his pain or sufferings are mostly inflicted upon him by others, whose actions he has no influence over.
I'm not even trying to solve a personal problem of mine, I'm just particularly interested in this phenomenon and how people dealt with it over the ages.

Anabasis - Xenophon
Orthodoxy - Chesterton
Complete Essays - Montaigne
Horus Rising - Dan Abnett
We - Evgeny Zamyatin

>think of a character
>assign them a theme song like a movie would do
>try to write them to give off the same vibe as the song
Is this actually legitimate way to write a character?

I just get extremely angry thinking about it.