Themes
A major theme involves the Wizard's Second Rule, "The greatest harm can result from the best intentions" as multiple major characters make decisions of questionable quality with the best of intentions. The unforeseen consequences of decisions made in crises situations drive the plot.
Richard Rahl's adjustment to his new life constitutes another theme. Whereas his previous life, as a guide and woodsman, was predictable and relatively safe, his new one is filled with change and peril. Richard is beginning to undergo an intensive process whereby the guiding principles of his existence, constants amidst shifting circumstances, will become clear to him.
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“In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shi’ite fundamentalists.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)