Free will; something we are all born with and have a right to, but what if you had your free will taken away from you at birth? In the novel Ella Enchanted written by Gail Carson Levine we see Ella, the main character have her free will taken at birth. As we read this fairy tale we see many different themes and challenges Ella undergoes. The story starts off with Ella being cursed at birth, the curse is given to her by fairy Lucinda. The curse states Ella must do anything and everything she is told to do, literally. There goes her free will. Although Ella has very little free will, she still lives a “princess life”. When Ella was 15 years-old her mother Eleanor dies, and of course like any other fairy tale the father is out of the picture.
