The Eagle of the Ninth | Themes and Characters
The major characters of the novel are all exiles in some way. The lessons they learn from one another about freedom, self-acceptance, loyalty, and interdependence constitute the novel's themes. His mother's remarriage and the sale of his family's farm exile Marcus Flavius Aquila from his home in Italy, and then a leg wound forces him out of the army. His uncle offers him a home in Britain, but he too is an ex-legionary and an expatriate. Marcus's traveling companion, Esca, is a captured British warrior who has been enslaved. Marcus's neighbor Cottia is an orphan who resists her aunt's...
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