Themes in The Tombs of Atuan

Themes in The Tombs of Atuan:
The Fear of Freedom: The reason for this is largely because through most of the book Atuan does not recognize that Tennar is not free. She is the most powerful of these people and so doesn’t see the trap. The world is full of people like this who never think to leave their confinement and so never recognize just how little freedom they really have and are often willing to give up even more for their small lives to be kept safe. Equilibrum between Man and Woman:

In mentioning the position and the power of Arha as the Priestess of the Tombs, the narrator consciously associates it with “her crossing into womanhood”. The Labyrinth under the Tombs is depicted as “the very heart of darkness”, the place where “light is forbidden”. At the same time, it is declared that "no man can enter the Dark Places of the Tombs”. It is clear from those descriptions that the darkness is closely connected to Arha’s womanhood, and is distinguished from the light and manhood which Ged symbolizes.  Her womanhood is interwoven not only with the darkness but also with the namelessness and silence. As I have mentioned above, there are solid connections between true names and true things in Earthsea. The wizardry means the availability of true names that belong to “the Old Speech, that language in which things are named with their true names”. However, the knowledge of true names is rigorously limited to particular people.