Justice Flashcards
Where does injustice occur in novel?
Robbie being blamed for crime in chapter 13.
Whole of part 2 with the war.
Cecilia/ Robbie never meeting again.
Nurses in part 3.
Argue that brionys dementia may be a form of injustice.
Briony can’t publish book as her criminals still live
When is there justice in the novel?
When briony gets dementia.
Why is the reader left without any justice ?
Because briony not only lies to the reader but Robbie and Cecelia die.
Meaning author subverts typical crime gene as usually the victim or reader does get some justice.
Emptiness
“Wake me before seven. I promise you won’t hear another world from me “
“Let his name be cleared, then let everyone else adjust their thinking”
“Find cecilia and love her, marry her, and live without shame”
“It seemed another mans life to him now. A dead civilisation. First his own life ruined”
“Robbie turner died of septicaemia at bray dunes … Celia was killed in September of the same year… u never saw them in that year”
“Process will be slow, but my brain, My mind is closing down”
“Lost the ability to comprehend anything at all”
“I cannot publish until they are dead”
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