There are many themes of the novel stands in the foreground, the theme of the relationship between freedom and conditioning, which are grafted the reasons of love, abuse, fear, which help to develop that unifying the marriage failure . Freedom is the value that hinges on Christian morality, but is cleared by negative values, the first of conformism (like Don abundance and Gertrude, for which it refers to "fall for nothing", and especially Prassede woman, to which Manzoni reserve at the end a bad jab: "As a woman Prassede, said he is dead, says it all"). Also important is the theme of contrast between the ideal and real, ie, between the company and how it should be like, instead, in fact. Here, then, appear in the grounds of privilege that affects only a small group of people, the injustice that affects all those who suffer the oppression of the privileges of others, violence in the social, political and even family, lack of morality that arises from failure to observe the most elementary rules of the Gospel. At this point, the pessimism of Manzoni, along with a latent sense of conviction becomes loose and soft in the good-natured tone of irony, especially in places where unmasks the little tricks of the poor (who are slow to take effect, such as marriage surprise) or when the complaint is tinged with bitterness the hypocrisy of politicians like his uncle or Ferrer and becomes bitter if it finds the complaint as well as the most sacred values, such as paternity, are polluted by pride, which leads to lies, coercion (think Gertrude's father), the distortion of family values \u200b\u200band society. The most significant issue, however, that on which the message Manzoni, refers to the religious view of life, dominated the leitmotif of the novel, namely the work of the Providence of God in history and in human affairs. Manzoni pessimism emerges in the finding of the presence of evil, of human irrationality, the explosive force of selfishness in contrast. Pure Grace God does not abandon the men who seek Him and trust in him who has faith in Providence, the succession of events makes sense, logic. Of course God is not the one who punishes the wicked and rewards the good, like an executioner. His judgments and His work can for most of the time unfathomable to men who must accept the facts with humility and trust. Don Abbondio mistaken when jubilant, Providence defines as a "broom" (ch. XXXVIII) finally made a clean sweep of Don Rodrigo and his henchmen. It is more correct reflection of his father Christopher in front of Don Rodrigo agony and suffering to the hospital, said: "It may be punishment can be merciful" (ch. XXXV). The plague, in fact, should not be simplistically reduced to a punishment of the wicked and the death of Don Rodrigo, between the pangs of disease, may be understood as the last chance offered to him by divine mercy because they repent and save his soul . In this sense, even if it ends with the celebration of the wedding, Manzoni's novel does not present the idyllic "happy ending" of the traditional historical novels. In fact, in hindsight, the conclusion of history is at Chapter XXXVI, when Father Christopher Lucia dissolves in the vote that made the night spent in the castle of the Unnamed, according to which the renunciation of marriage. In this way she can follow the voice of the heart and also finally see Renzo removed the last obstacle. The two took leave of his father Christopher, moved by his last words, which sound to their ears as a testament to forgive and inviting "always, always! Everything, everything." The last two chapters, with preparations for the wedding celebration and concise narrative of the years of married life, I am a complete history: the essential point, however, is the gathering of two young people with feelings unchanged and a reinforced accept the will of God in their lives. The "happy ending" The Betrothed, if anything, is not in the rite of marriage, but in that sort of "Decalogue" which Renzo, now husband, father and successful businessman (Implanted, as we have said, a lucrative spinning Bergamo) to balance those two years of troubled and adventurous. Notes that this is a hard fact of life experience that enables him to give good advice to children when they grow up. Instead Lucia notes that for its part, has never been in trouble, but "are they who have come to seek me." Then, together, the couple came to the conclusion that, faced with tribulations, we must trust God and hope that the suffering will improve their lives. It's a romance without end, as noted by critics, but consistent with the religious tension that runs throughout the narrative. The religious theme, along with the choice to put the lowly ("people of mechanical and small business, "the anonymous calls them) to the protagonists of history, is certainly the big news of the novel. Do not leap to the fore only two farmers, but also important figures (an archbishop, a powerful feudal lord, politicians and representatives the ecclesiastical hierarchy, a lawyer, a mayor, a major nobilotto with relatives) are evaluated on the basis of the position taking against them. Finally flagella and public disasters (such as plague, riots, war and famine), are relevant because they create the context in which we create the adventures of the protagonists. It is a choice and a brave revolutionary overthrow of literary values, which implements the Manzoni, convinced and supported by the Gospel message. This, on the other hand, it is diluted through the pages as the connective tissue of the story prominent, but often times with discretion and is embodied in people "minor" of considerable interest. Valga, in all, this modest but beautiful shape that is the servant of Don Rodrigo appears in Chapter V to welcome Christopher to visit his father to the palace of Don Rodrigo. The help he gives to the monk is also crucial for the unfolding of history, because the plan to kidnap Lucy, after which the cappuccino organize the escape of children from the country and triggered the mechanism that gives rise to the events of the Second section. No coincidence that Father Christopher describes him as "a trickle" of Providence.
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