Teresa Duarte is one the most intriguing characters in the saga. For all the privilege, power, and the sheltered childhood afforded to her, her life has driven her to such misery that not even those things can get her to stay. Laconian society is one where every member, including the heir to history's most powerful empire, must sacrifice themselves for an ideal, a greater good that no one asked for, that she never asked for.

“Seriously? You’re one of the angriest people I know, Tiny,” Timothy said.

Thing is,” Timothy said, loud over the roar of the torch, “there’s only a couple kinds of anger. You get angry because you’re afraid of something or you get angry because you’re frustrated.”

To examine this, I want to have a closer look at the ways Teresa's unique childhood resulted in building up this "anger" that Amos can detect but that Teresa is seemingly unaware of.

And I also want to discuss the ways Teresa is similar and different to Clarissa Mao, who also lived a sheltered life of wealth and privilege.…