The greatest strengths of Ivanhoe were the themes of the novel. All the characters in Ivanhoe were in some way affected by the major theme of the hatred between the Saxon’s and Normans. The novel also answers many of the great questions of life. It mainly is a love triangle and of betrayal. The love triangle is threaded all throughout thebook in many places and ultimately closes the novel with Ivanhoe and Rowena get married. Betrayal is spoke in the beginning of the book when Ivanhoe betrays Cetricby going on crusades. Cedric disowns Ivanhoe because he betrayed his father.The theme of hatred towards another group of people is threaded throughoutthe novel. Many factors contributed to this being the theme that was treaded throughthe novel. Fighting was occurring in many key parts of the novel between the two groupsof people. The fighting told the reader that people from each side didn’t like each otherand wanted to kill one another. Attacks were also common. Gurth was attacked for doing nothing, just because he was part of Cedric’s group.In closing, the theme of hatred towards another group was the strength of this novel. It was threaded throughout the novel and kept the reader with knowing what was going on....
