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    Atonement – Analytical Essay Ian McEwan ’s ambitious and prize-winning novel‚ Atonement follows the actions of a young girl‚ Briony Tallis‚ who witnesses an event which she knows holds some kind of significance. Yet her limited understanding of adult motives leads her to co¬¬mmit a crime that will change the lives of everyone involved. As she grows older‚ she begins to understand her actions and the grief that has been caused. The entire novel is an attempt of reconciliation that Briony undertakes

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    Atonement By Ian Mcewan

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    In Atonement‚ Ian McEwan suggests the dangers of confusing our fantasies with reality; that we have become so accustomed to choosing to see what we wish to see rather than reality and this leads to destruction in our lives. Our refusal to accept or want to see reality creates a cycle in which we become alienated from others‚ just as Briony‚ Robbie and Cecelia did. Briony lives in her stories‚ Cecelia lives in her mind‚ and Robbie lives in his memories. Eventually they each end up alone and longing

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    Tori C. Guzman AP Literature and Composition Wednesday September 11th 2013 Title: Atonement Author: Ian McEwan Date of Publication or Writing: World War 2 Main Characters: Briony Tallis: The narrator (Revealed at the end that the story is actually her telling as atonement for the events in the story. She is a teenager of about thirteen at the beginning of the story. By the end she is about eighteen. Briony is known for her imagination and fantasizing with reality. A Playwright‚ story

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    poet‚ is one of these individuals. He wrote a poem called “Out‚ Out-“‚ based on Act V Scene V of Macbeth. His poem is clearly inspired by the play‚ as it deals with similar aspects‚ such as death. And while Shakespeare used the language of his time in the play‚ Frost uses a lot of figurative language in his poem. Frost was clearly inspired by Shakespeare to write this poem‚ as the title is a quote from the novel and the topics are so similar. The poem by Robert Frost is almost a short story. It tells

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    Atonement Analyze how verbal AND visual features of a text (or texts) you have studied are used to give audiences a strong idea. Theme: Power of imagination Joe Wright’s film Atonement is the story told through the eyes of main protagonist Briony Tallis. The story centers on her attempts to wash away her guilt and find atonement for her actions that began with a lie that ruined the lives and happiness of her beloved sister‚ Cecilia‚ and her sister’s lover‚ Robbie. Her actions forever changed

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    Atonement By Ian Mcewan

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    was stationed at the time. While in Northern Africa‚ at the age of 12‚ he was separated from his parents; McEwan was sent back to Britain to attend a Boarding School. He was separated from his family for many years of his life (“Biography”). In Atonement‚ McEwan brings his life into the life of Robbie Turner. McEwan’s father and Robbie were moving around as a result of war‚ but each are for extremely different reasons. Robbie is serving punishment for an accusation made by Briony about sexual harassment

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    With close textual analysis of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Atonement by Ian McEwan to what extent do the writers use their characters obsessive natures as the driving force of their fiction? Throughout Wuthering Heights‚ Bronte demonstrates the theme of obsessive natures within love and relationships. This is especially presented through the character of Heathcliff-due to his desire for Catherine’s love‚ ’wrenched open the lattice‚ bursting ... into an uncontrollable passion of tears’-chapter

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    Lord Byron’s quote‚ “The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity‚” is one of a great concept. It suggests that without realizing and acknowledging that you have done wrong you don’t feel the need to fix yourself to be good‚ and by fixing yourself you express your own ideas about its necessity. This quote is applicable to the characters in “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The three primary characters of this novel‚ Hester‚ Chillingworth and Dimmesdale exhibited the qualities

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    also a “substitution” in that he was a substitute for us when he died. This has been the orthodox understanding of the atonement held by evangelical theologians‚ in contrast to other views that attempt to explain the atonement apart from the idea of the wrath of God or payment of the penalty for sin. This view of the atonement is sometimes called the theory of vicarious atonement. A “vicar” is someone who stands in the place of another or who represents another. Christ’s death was therefore “vicarious”

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    committed. It relies on the redeemer themselves; redemption is achieved once the wrongdoer is satisfied that they have done what they can to repent for their deeds. Ransom by David Malouf is set during the time of the Trojan War‚ in contrast to Atonement‚ directed by Joe Wright‚ which is primarily set out in England during World War II. Both these texts comprise of characters who want to change the “story” of their lives as well as those around them in an attempt to redeem

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