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Atonement
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- 1Chapter One SummaryBriony is a writer who dreams of becoming famous
Briony has written and prepared a play for her older brother Leon, who is returning home from London
Briony attempts to direct her cousins into roles for the play
Lola challenges her and manipulates her, ruining Briony's "perfect" vision - 2Chapter One Analysisxx
- 3Chapter Two SummaryDespite Cecilia's uselessness to the family she does not want to go away
She has had a long term relationship with Robbie
There is a separation in classes between the two
This may cause anger from Cecilia to Robbie
Leon is coming home with Paul Marshall
Cecilia spends extra time preparing, Robbie insists helping which lead them to drop the vase - 4Chapter Two AnalysisSocial Class/ Gender Roles are Introduced
While Cecilia wants to be "needed" at home (a maternal instinct) she is aware that she also has the education and skills to be independent and part of London's working class.
Feminism was not a thing interwar era.
Cecilia is not aware of why she treats Robbie so poorly, that her efforts to "impress" Paul Marshall are really aimed towards Robbie.
he vase is a symbol that all things traditional and perfect in the Tallis home are about to break. Here we have Robbie, a man who enjoys landscaping and making plants natural in their beautiful state, separated from Cecilia, who seeks to take the flowers and place them in her room, removing them for their natural place. The vase is the object that bridges them, but before it can ever be put into use, it is broken.
Robbie, recognizing her fury and his punishment as she emerges from the water
Water is an avid symbol throughout the book, as we read on to discover. Robbie is constantly betrayed by the one element that is intended to both cleanse him and be his source of life. - 5Chapter ThreeThe twin pees in his bed, disrupting Briony's rehearsal
Lola shows up and causes Briony to question her "slow growing pace"
Briony begins to question her imagination
She watches the fountain scene from afar
Briony mistakes what she is seeing, thinking she is being proposed to, and then is being controlled and drowned
She is aware she does not know, but still projects ideas onto characters around her
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- A level English Flashcards on Atonement, created by arlen newton on 31/10/2022.
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- arlen newton · Oct 2022
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