Karteikarten
ATONEMENT
Karten in diesem Stapel (6)
- 1ww
- 2OVERVIEW-2 CRIMES FORM CLIMACTIC MOMENTS -
LOLA'S RAPE / BRIONY'S' TO THE POLICE
-the novel can be read as an exploration into the consequences of these crimes.
ONE HAND - R/C - punished unjustly by their seperate banishments / robbie suffers the indignity of being imprisoned and his reputation slurred / cecilia lives a life of sadness
OTHER HAND -BRIONY punished by her guilt and spends her life seeking atonement - becoming a nurse / becomming a writer to right her wrongs through fiction and a love story
WORLD OF THE TEXT - BRIONY is unable to schive her atonement by publishing the 'truth' - has to wait for the deaths of the real criminal and victim who are now married and likely to outlive her
GREATER SIGNIFICANCE - the crime against the reader - McEwan shockingly reveals at the end - becasue it is only then that it is clear that this story is BRIONY'S - her fantasy to ease the guilt she felt all her life - her attempt to rewrite history and create a happy conclusion for R/C - 3SETTING AND CRIMEBEGINS - 1935 / ENDS -1999 = Life time of guilt for briony
5 MAIN SETTINGS -
1 - TALLIS COUNTRY HOUSE - in wich MCE chooses to set prt one - typical crime setting
- the wealthy TALLIS family see its self and its guests as superior to the law, unwilling to call the police when the twins run away BUT contact them only when they think ROBBIE - of lower class - is guilty of raping lola
- for the most part the law seems answerable to them
2 - NORTHERN FRANCE - similarily lawless place -focus for the terrible crime of war - smaller scale - where petty crime and insubordination are overlooked
3 - BRIONY'S HOSPITAL - befits her needs for reperation - place of both misery and comfort / wounds and healing.
4 - LONDON 1999 - BRIONY age 75 and though her life has security and comfort - she is still troubles at night by her guilt and eagerness to atone for her sins through writing - 4SETTING AND CRIME5 - TWIST - TALLIS COUNTRY HOUSE - NOW - TILNEYS HOTEL - for a family reunion - in this setting briony completes her story - tells hows this whole tale has been her attempt to repair the damage of her crime by changing the ending
- she sees her fiction as "a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion"
BUT
within this setting the crime against the reader is most pronounced - TILNEYS HOTEL - chose by MCE deliberatly - alludes to the tilney home in Austens Nothhanger Abbey - serve as a reminder that
STORIES ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED. - 5PAUL MARSHALNOVELS VILLAIN
-though inteerestingly MCE chooses to some what marginalise his criminality
MARSHAL is given little space in the novel and is not persued or punished
- BRIONY specilates that he could have some guilt - "perhaps he spent a life time making amends" - but it is clear that the criminal go away unpunihsed.
HIS CRIME - dreadful - raping a young gril who was outside looking for her missing brothers
- he is rich and privileged - sucessfull in buisness
-when he is given a voice by MCE he is insisten, commanding and a bore - starts a conversation with a "ten minute monologue"
-no attrictive features - his arrogance is evident in his dispariging of robbie as a result of his lower class roots - not suprising that he uses his class and privalige in his dealings with the police and robbie takes the balme.
- eventually it emerges that MARSHAL marries LOLA
- by the end of the novel he is richer / a lord/ very well respected and has untold crimes briony cant even publish because publication could lead to litigation
GETS AWAY - MCE upper class - preivalige - 6VICTIMSLOLA -Somewhat sidelined as victim - Perhaps As the story story is told through BRIONY and she's concerned own position as a criminal and her own need to repair damage done to Robbie
- leaves LOLA on the edge of the text as a victim
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- A2 English Karteikarten am ATONEMENT , erstellt von Tae-ha C am 21/06/2017.
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