My Heart is The Tempest Q&A Session 4

What are the main themes explored in the book?

Stemming from the idea of an absent witch condemned to oblivion by men for her “devious” and unnatural character, as Sycorax is in The Tempest by William Shakespeare, my novella My Heart is The Tempest explores such themes as rage, isolation and the fight to create one’s own personal form of truth and coherence in a world which denies divergent, dissonant creatures with the possibility to have a space to live and breathe in. Though controversial, because potentially lethal, rage can become a powerful source of inspiration for a reject of society, in this case a young girl whom everyone believes to be “evil” because her sole presence prevents “good” from being perfect unsullied. What if the so called “good” and “evil” were not what they seemed to be, though? What if, by diving into the extraordinary well of rage, the boundary between good and evil, light and darkness, completely fell apart, turning reality into an endless flowing of one phase within the other?