"The bitter thing was all the spirit, all the gallantry, was wasted. For even more than inferiors, they accepted and looked forward to being Capped. It was a part of becoming a knight, or of turning from a girl to lady. Thinking of this, I saw how good things could be meaningless in isolation. What value did courage have, without a free and challenging mind to direct it?" (p. 111)
This quoite above, relates to the theme of the book by meaning that being 'Capped can be the worst reason why you can't possess the freedom. The evidence is at the first sentence in the quote, "The bitter thing was all the spirit, all the gallntry, was wasted." Here, 'the bitter thing' is being Capped, and the rest of the sentence says that just because of being Capped, all the sprit and the gallantry was wasted. If you get Capped by the tripod, you will be controlled by it, and you won't be able to feel whether you are free or not because you are not on your own. You are a slave to the tripod, that you can't even do whatever you want to do.
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