Princess Academy Themes

Miri desperately loves her family in Princess Academy, but she often feels like she's left out. Her older sister, Marda, gets to help out in the quarries, but Miri doesn't—and she feels as though...

The Princess Academy is put into place for one reason only: to transform the young ladies of Mount Eskel into promising potential brides for the prince. Even though they're pretty young teenagers (...

In Princess Academy, Tutor Olana believes that her charges need to refine their language and learn the art of diplomacy because they're poor, crude girls from the mountains. Her lessons do help the...

For Miri and the other girls in Princess Academy, Mount Eskel is home. They've grown up in the mountains their whole lives—with the exception of Britta, who was born a lowlander. Because of this,...

With twenty girls vying for the attention of one prince, Princess Academy might as well turn into a reality show. It has a lot of the hallmarks of one—catty girls, suspicions of cheating, and ste...

There's definitely a perception of class differences between lowlanders and highlanders in Princess Academy. In a bit of a twist, though, it's the lowlanders who think they're higher class, while t...

In Princess Academy, Miri often has to rely on her friendships to get her through the loneliness of being away from her family and home. She's isolated from a lot of the other girls, who are jealou...

The citizens of Mount Eskel don't fight against the mountain in Princess Academy—instead they embrace their home and the resources that it has to offer. The highlanders collect linder from the qu...

Even though the girls are encouraged to look toward a potential future of being the princess in Princess Academy, they are motivated by a lot of their memories from the past. For example, Miri's fa...

The girls in Princess Academy have been sent to learn how to become presentable young ladies, but in the process of being away from their families and learning more about the world, they also grow...