With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility This theme describes Zoey's responsibilities that go along with her affinity for all five elements and training to become High Priestess, one step down from the Goddess Nyx. Throughout the story, Zoey is constantly battling with herself about who she can trust and who her actions will affect. Zoey is told by one of her professors, "being chosen of our goddess is as much pain as it is privilege" (Cast 284). Zoey is never allowed to be selfish and act for herself. She always has to keep-in-mind in the well being of the House of Night and the ones who are close to her. Throughout the story, Zoey struggles with keeping information to herself. She has to burry a lot of secrets in order to ensure the safety of the people she loves. In doing this, she has to spend a lot of time by herself. She ends up pushing her friends away because she has to protect them. When Zoey was thinking in frustration, "[she] clamped [her] jaws shut to keep from screaming in pain and sorrow and fear. [Her] friends were all [she] had. If [she] lost them, how would [she] survive" (Cast 284)? Zoey realizes that she will never be a normal teenager again. Since she was chosen by the Goddess Nyx, she has to face the responsibilities of being blessed with great power herself, even if it means ending relationships with the people she is closest to and depends on. Zoey has to face as much pain as needed to protect the House of Night and the ones she loves.
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