ATONEMENT AO5

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McEWAN

CLARISSA

... McEwan uses letters as a structure [metanarrative]...

KING

... In McEwan's stories we frequently see the imagination generating obsessions which become destructive...

WOOD

... trauma, in McEwan's work, inaugurates a loss of innocence...

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CECILIA

FINNEY

... they [Robbie and Cecilia] will always live...

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ROBBIE

FINNEY

... they [Robbie and Cecilia] will always live...

HALFORD

... if Robbie is educated at the same level as her [Emily's] children it eliminates an important marker of class distinction...

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BRIONY

FILIMONOVA

... Briony's character undergoes a change of egocentric and foolish to remorseful...

... Briony is a character that suffers from a lack of attention...

... to interpret the behaviour of adults, children use their imagination and this is the cause of tragedy...

D'ANGELO

... Briony's self-acceptance at the end of her narrative is somewhat inconclusive as she knows her stand will be critiqued either way...

FINNEY

... Briony makes a conscious choice in making Robbie a villain...

... Briony is too young to understand the dangers...

... Fiction determines fact for her...

KIDD

... Once reality breaks in upon Briony's fictions she is powerless to determine their direction or end...

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PAUL MARSHALL

D'ANGELO

... Marshall represents the kind of modern figure that often escapes critique...

HALFORD

... his good name is the skewered result of wartime profiteering and advantage taking...