coping with someone controlling your life theme

A character has to struggle with someone (or something) controlling their life.

Examples

Professor Kerry West got a new television set that began to regulate almost every aspect of his daily life in Twonky (1953).

5 total · 5 major

StoryLevelMotivation
ahp3x29 major Harold complained that he had let his domineering sister boss him around for 13 years.
ahp6x26 major Lucy was fed up with her domineering mother for preventing her from getting married.
movie: The Damned (1963) major Joan was fed up with her biker gang brother controlling her life.
movie: The Twonky (1953) major Kerry West's television was regulating nearly every aspect of his life, like choosing the sort of music he listened to and decided when he will be shaved.
theamericanshortstory14 major Beatrice was under the dominion of her father, Rappaccini.