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Atonement Analysis

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Ian McEwan’s Atonement deals with significance and the complexity of truth. Briony is the main character in Atonement who is young woman with a broadened and striking inventive capacity. Her reality emerges from her engaging vision of life which contains just dreams and disappointments. Atonement highlights the subjective nature of truth through shifting narrative voices. Atonement represents the subjective idea of truth the energy of subconscious and reality in return for a good lesson.
Narrative viewpoints of the fountain scene show the possibility of truth to be multifaceted and turned. Cecilia’s disappointed shout of ‘you idiot’ to Robbie after the vase breaks, analyzes the loving ‘proposal of marriage’ which Briony accumulates from …show more content…

After completion of letter he spots Briony who was standing over the bridge he asks Briony to pass the letter to Cecilia. Briony, takes the letter and runs ahead into the home with Robbie’s note. As she runs off, Robbie realizes that it was not the actual letter. The obscene letter was on its way to Cecilia, while apology note remains in the bedroom. Instead of giving letter to Cecilia, she opens it and discovered the obscenity in its closing sentences and it also shows that Briony’s innocence is taken from her and she starts to make false assumptions about Robbie. When Lola enters the room she start crying because her brothers was misbehaving and abusing her because they blame for being stuck in Tallis house, and not that of their parents. Briony consoles her and for changing her mind she share the content of letter with Lola. “She could learn to be a little more expensive from her cousin whose turn it now was to put a comforting hand on Briony’s shoulder. ‘How appalling for you. The man’s a maniac”(119). Lola identifies Robbie as a “Maniac” and suggests they go directly to police.
This paragraph describes the moment when Briony was searching for twins on her own and Briony’s interpretation of Cecilia and Robbie’s love leads her to believe that she must protect her sister. Briony heads the other way of Robbie the “Maniac” and moves toward the lake. Following the hunch that twins might be in the temple, Briony advances

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