Briony As A Nurse Flashcards
When/ where is briony a nurse ?
London
1940
Brionys wasted potential ?
“She could have been at her sisters college, rather than her sisters hospital”
“Abandon her ambitions of writing and dedicate her life to retune for these moments of elated, generalised love”
“She imagines the unavailable future”
Brionys consequences of her own crime / suffering
“Abandoning herself to a life of strictures, rules, obedience … and a constant feat of disapproval”
“Whatever skivvying humble nursing she did … she would never undo the damage. She was unforgivable”
Brionys guilt
“She could hardly feel sorry for herself”
“She regretted not being more factual”
Brionys suffering in the face of war
“White protuberance of bone”
“How one of these men might be Robbie… how he would turn to her with gratitudes… forgive her”
“Ruin, crimson and raw”
“Exposed muscles around his eye socket”
Suffering of soldiers
“The side of Luc’s head was missing”
“Spongy crimson mess of a brain”
“A lovely boy who was a long way from his family and he was about to die”
