In literature, “recoil” operates as a versatile term that captures both physical and metaphorical withdrawal. Authors employ it to denote the literal bouncing back found in mechanical descriptions—as when discussing the force of a gun’s action [1, 2]—and to illustrate the emotional repulsion or instinctive retreat of characters, such as the shudder at the sight of something disturbing or the heart’s involuntary withdrawal [3, 4]. The word further extends into the realm of abstract consequence, portraying how actions or moral misdeeds may come back to haunt their perpetrators, as in the notion that violence recoils upon the violent [5]. This multifaceted usage imbues “recoil” with a richness that can simultaneously delineate a physical reaction and encapsulate deeper, often self-reflective, emotional responses [6, 7].