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It means that following your duty is doing the honorable thing even when what you want is different. Duty means doing the things your heart may well regret – This is also a line in a song.
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For Erika, it shows that although she is held to paying a debt inherited from her parents, her rebellious yet honorable nature keeps her working harder and harder to be free. The story illustrates this through the journeys of both girls. As the story develops for Anneliese, it shows that although she starts out bound by her royal position to follow someone else’s agenda, whoever that might be, her intelligence helps her to fight through a crisis and find a way to live a life that fulfills both her royal duty and her duty to herself. What this means is that destiny is unpredictable and what you’ll become can only be found by looking inside yourself.