What is the theme in The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood?

Destiny is a theme in this book. Throughout the main novel - and even within the sub-novel - destiny is a thorny and precarious theme. It seemed that every character to a degree had little or no control over his or her destiny. Even Richard the Terrible, who so longed for prestige and power that he would stop at nothing, was destined for the scrap heap.