Chapter 9
'Fear is the original sin. Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.'—the novel's thesis statement.
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From The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
The novel's central philosophical theme: that fear is the root of all unhappiness and moral failure, and that freedom comes only from rejecting it.
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