chapter 1 quotes/annotations Flashcards
‘had designed the posters, programmes and tickets, constructed the sales booth
-page 3
- introducing Briony like this portrays her as a hard working character who seems to be a perfectionist.
- she has to have everything done in a specific way.
- very ambitious
‘two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch’
-page 3
-immediately brought attention to Briony’s artistic side, she seems set apart from reality
‘had nothing to do but contemplate her finished draft’
-page 3
- it feels as though she has an unexciting life as she had ‘nothing’ else to do
- dedicated to the writing
‘Briony studied her mother’s face for every trace of shifting emotion, and Emily Tallis obliged’
page 4
-suggests she needs validation from her mother
‘Briony was hardly to know it then, but this was the project’s highest point of fulfilment’
page 4
- the best moment it could be for her
- makes us question what it about to come/ what has happened. Opens the idea something is going to happen.
‘she was one of those children possessed by a desire to have the world just so’
page 4
- can only see things for their literal meanings
- also highlights the need for things to be as they seem to her
‘another was a passion for secrets’
page 5
- she wants secrets but they are not there
- alludes to how she could potentially end up with future secrets
‘but hidden draws, lockable diaries and cryptographic systems could not conceal from Briony the simple truth: she had no secrets. Her wish for a harmonious, organised world denied her the reckless possibilities’
page 5
- her organisation denies her of her secrets
- we also see what goes wrong when her imagination is released
‘but no one wanted to know’
page 5
- she feels very hard-done-by.
- also a very immature way to view things
‘a foolish affair’
page 6
- keeps trying to progress in her novels.
- slow start, highlights her immaturity
‘what other authority could she have? Only when a story was finished, all fates resolved and the whole matter sealed off at both ends so it resembled’
page 6
- wants things to be as they are
- she has no other authority apart from writing her play which is not a huge lot.
- tries to seal off the ends
‘take the finished work to show her mother, or her father, when he was home’
page 6
- home on war prep.
- AO3 right before the war starts
‘a world could be made in five pages’
page 7
-artificiality of writing
‘the trials of Arabella may have been a melodrama, but the author had yet to hear the term’
page 8
- the author is writing and don’t know what the term means yet
- defines her immaturity and youthful ways
‘the piece was intended to inspire not laughter’
page 8
-subtle links to aristole
