atonement Flashcards
quote showing briony’s self centredness and the fact that she writes to reaffirm her own reality
“Briony was not playing Arabella because she wrote the play, she was taking the part because no other option had crossed her mind, because that was how Leon was to see her, because she was Arabella.”
quote showing cecelia’s class position
“No one was holding Cecilia back, no one would care particularly if she left.”
quote showing briony’s limited perspective
the failure to grasp the simple truth
quote setting up danny hardman as a red herring
· “The roundness she had remembered in his cheeks had gone and the childish bow of his lips had become elongated and innocently cruel”
quote showing paul marshal as annoying but harmless
· “There was something comically brooding about his face. His opener was conventionally dull”
quote showing paul marshall as dangerous and profiting off of the war
· “Paul Marshall banged his hands together, and the sound ricocheted…”
quote showing lola’s maturity
· “As for Lola, she didn’t want to dirty her cashmere by lying on the floor”
quote showing paul marshall as noncy creep
· “Now he saw that the girl was almost a young, woman, poised and imperious, quite the little Pre-Raphaelite princess with her bangles and tresses, her painted nails and velvet choker”
quote showing emily tallis’ ignorance about what goes on in the house
“Poor darling Briony … what she wanted everyone to call a nervous breakdown.”
robbies letter
“He dropped forwards and typed before he could stop himself, ‘In my dreams I kiss your cnt, your sweet wet cnt. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long.’”
cecelia’s realisation that she loves robbie
“Initially, as simple phrase chased round and round in Cecilia’s thoughts. Of course, of course. How had she not seen it? Everything was explained. The whole day, the weeks before, the childhood. A lifetime. It was clear to her now.” -
briony after reading the letter
order must be imposed
library scene showing robbie as predatory
· “He looked so huge and wild, and Cecilia with her bare shoulders and thin arms so frail.”
