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    reference to your chosen extract‚ how does McEwan use language and narrative method to create a sense of impending doom? Ian McEwan wrote this novel at a time of modernism. It was a time to experiment how the novels were written. In Atonement‚ Briony is a character trying to reach her “highest point of fulfilment” as a writer. Quite strange she was only a young girl who was entering adolescence‚ while trying to balance this will over control and a life full of secrets. These characteristics will

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    the first place‚ how do we share this guilt and how do we atone for it? The novel might best be described as meta-textual: it is a book‚ above all‚ about the act of writing and representation. This‚ essentially‚ is the process of atonement that Briony must go through - to both represent what happened and how it happened‚ but moreover to reflect critically throughout on the process of this representation. Texts are everywhere in Atonement - from the quote from Northanger Abbey (Austen’s famous

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    Three were penned by none other than the 77-year-old Briony Tallis. This epilogue‚ and what it divulges about the events we have just read‚ turns the book into a metafiction. A close rereading of the book turns up multiple references to the fact that it is in fact a manuscript written by the elderly Briony. McEwan’s metafictional strategies‚ evident in parts one to three only to the second time reader‚ call attention to the many changes Briony made to her manuscript in her attempt to atone for her

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    role in Marian Trimingham and Ted Burgess being caught and the subsequent tragedy that occurred such as Leo Colston’s physiological trauma in ‘The go between’. The social divide in ‘Atonement’ was very obvious; Robbie was accepted into the Tallis family but was never equal to them. Cecilia almost feared the relationship she had with Robbie because of his class and the repercussions it could have for her and her family within the upper class sociality “Why don’t you talk to Robbie

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    McEwan in his novel Atonement explores deceit through the character of Briony. Briony is presented as an overly ambitious young girl whose actions are mainly done to gain some recognition in the adult world. McEwan structures his novel in such a way that the reader is presented with the deceit in the first part of the novel and the atonement for the deceit is later on in the novel. Ibsen in his play A Doll’s House also explores the theme of deceit through the character of Nora. Nora at first is

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    In his metafictional novel Atonement‚ Ian McEwan utilises narrative techniques to develop the central ideas of truth‚ war‚ and the desire to attain atonement. McEwan uses narrative structure to explore the nature of guilt and the courage required by one to atone for their wrongdoings‚ while he uses the interplay between narrative voices to explain how people have different interpretations of the truth. The narrative perspective of the character Robbie Turner is additionally employed to explore the

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    while writing‚ Briony not only realises the consequences of her actions but also realises that without the innocent alive‚ the guilty will never be punished by the law because there is no one who would benefit from revealing the truth. She claims later in the novel that she cannot publish the truth until the people it involves die‚ expressing that she is unwilling to allow justice for Lola’s rape‚ subject the “criminals” to punishment from the law or clear Robbie’s name‚ while the Tallis family are still

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    of the Tallis’ family estate. Written in a third person narrative‚ McEwan moves in and out through the minds of the characters. Briony a co-protagonist of the story is thirteen years old when the novel first begins and does not understand the relationship between her sister Cecilia and the gardener Robbie Turner. After reading a sexual note Robbie sent to Cecilia and later walking in on them during a sexual act in the library‚ Briony convinces herself that Robbie is a ‘sex maniac’. Brionys taste

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    Myrtle‚ whose lifeless husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes‚ representing two extreme classes. McEwan reinforces this theme in the relationship between Robbie Turner and Cecilia Tallis‚ Robbie a gardener and Cecilia the daughter of the ministry-employed and wealthy Jack Tallis are also partitioned by class. Consequently‚ relationships in both novels are doubtlessly doomed due to the impenetrable barriers of class and wealth. Throughout the novel‚ this theme is reinforced as

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    late. Briony had failed to amend and reconstruct the lives she had destroyed. In addition to her inability to repair those she hurt‚ she also neglected to bring justice to those who truly deserved it. Paul Marshall is never punished for his horrid act‚ and gets away scot-free. The reader is lead to believe that Briony escapes the consequences of her moral failing. The film adaptation truly does the title justice. The atonement succeeds‚ with flying colors. By her ability as a storyteller‚ Briony conceives

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