Flynt's plot has two themes overall: Morality and Legacy.
For Morality, Flynt's journey can really be summed up by the quote "What is better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?†Flynt's formative years were unforgiving, and he learned early on that to survive in a ruthless world one needed to be equally ruthless. While the people who surround him now have softened him quite a bit and keep him in line, his biggest worry isn't that he'll do something 'wrong', it's that what he sees as necessary often times horrifies the people he cares about. He tries hard to hold himself to a very specific code, but he hates to admit that more often than not he tends to relate and understand better those that are deemed 'evil' than those that people deemed 'good'.
For Legacy, Flynt just feels like he is hidden in the shadow of a man who was much greater than him, and one he doesn't feel he can ever live up to. His mentor was everything he wished to be, and the areas Flynt feels inadequate Dalinat excelled at. Instead of being his successor, Flynt feels like a kid wearing his dad's clothes. He worries that he'll never live up to the standard which Dalinat set, and that he will fail at keeping the promises he's made because of it.
For Morality, Flynt's journey can really be summed up by the quote "What is better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?†Flynt's formative years were unforgiving, and he learned early on that to survive in a ruthless world one needed to be equally ruthless. While the people who surround him now have softened him quite a bit and keep him in line, his biggest worry isn't that he'll do something 'wrong', it's that what he sees as necessary often times horrifies the people he cares about. He tries hard to hold himself to a very specific code, but he hates to admit that more often than not he tends to relate and understand better those that are deemed 'evil' than those that people deemed 'good'.
For Legacy, Flynt just feels like he is hidden in the shadow of a man who was much greater than him, and one he doesn't feel he can ever live up to. His mentor was everything he wished to be, and the areas Flynt feels inadequate Dalinat excelled at. Instead of being his successor, Flynt feels like a kid wearing his dad's clothes. He worries that he'll never live up to the standard which Dalinat set, and that he will fail at keeping the promises he's made because of it.
 Sylastair Wolfhart Wiki