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Briony studied her mother’s face for every trace of shifting emotion

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page 4
(briony)
indicates how Briony’s desperately desires to control the emotions and take-aways of those reading her work

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yearning fantasies

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page 4
(briony)
indicates how Briony is an overacheiver

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a shrine to her controlling demon

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page 5
(briony)
indicates how Briony desires power and authority

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her straight-backed dolls

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page 5
(briony)
indicates how Briony is truly just a child

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many-roomed mansion

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page 5
(Tallis family)
demonstrates the wealth of the Tallis’

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passion for secrets … hidden drawers and lockable diaries

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page 5
(briony)
demonstrates that briony isn’t as innocent and fragile as she may seem

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her wish for a harmonious and organised world

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page 5
(briony)
does this indicate that she desires ‘god’-like control of her world? or that she innocently desires world peace?

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isolation of the Tallis household

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page 5
(tallis)
indicates this family does not know each other, they are strangers living under the same roof

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the script was written in a two-day tempest, causing her to miss a breakfast and lunch

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(briony)
indicates how Briony is so invested in her writing, nothing can draw her away

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the baby of the family …

it surprised her parents and older sister to hear their quiet girl perform so boldly

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(briony)
indicates how Briony is different to how her family sees her, they don’t know her

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she is also God …

there is no one no entity or higher form that she can appeal to or be reconciled

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(briony)
indicates how Briony doesn’t feel guilt, she just feels power

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she needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost

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(briony)
demonstrates how Briony believes everyone is out to hurt her

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she’s taken on nursing as a sort of penance

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(briony)
does she actively try to repent?

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14
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she was unforgivable …

familiar guilt …

unreliable witness …

haunted by the face of Lola

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(briony)
indicates how Briony is forever haunted by her guilt

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writing fantasies was now an enveloping obsession

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(briony)
indicates how Briony is becoming more wrapped up in her stories

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lived in her thoughts

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(briony)
indicates how Briony wrapped up in her stories

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she was able to build and shape her narrative in her own words

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(briony)
indicates how Briony is obsessed

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(Lola has a) destructive intent …

played her final card …

she could have been cruella de vil …

Lola’s dominion was merciless

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(Lola)
indicates how Briony believes Lola to be cruel and villainous

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refugies from a bitter domestic war

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(Lola)
victimises the cousins

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beginning to shiver …

I’m just too weak …

sobbing loudly …

vulnerable Lola

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(Lola)
she is then victimised

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Lola barely more than a child … taken to marry her rapist

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(Lola)
she is innocent and victimised

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22
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protect against that Lola

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(Emily)
she, too, villainises lola

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she took her daughter in her arms … the little body …

Briony was in need of her

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(Emily)
emily still sees briony like a baby

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24
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Paul Marshall was staring at her

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(Paul)
indicates how villainous he is

25
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ten-minute long monologue

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(Paul)
indicates how villainous he is

26
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he settled his trouser creases as he looked from Qunicey to quincey and uncrossed his legs

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(Paul)
indicates how villainous he is

27
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put his hand on her arm

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(Paul)
indicates how villainous he is

28
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he’s immune

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(Paul)
after all, paul gets away with his crime

29
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(Robbie was an) indefiable shape … inhumane … giant

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(robbie)
Briony villainises robbie

30
Q

everyone was guilty and no one was

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(robbie)
shows how the war deprives soldiers of all emotion

31
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(nurses had) no identity beyond the badge

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(briony)
are the nurses just as lost as the soldiers?

32
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I know it was him -> I saw him

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(briony)
the lie that changed everything

33
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I know it was him -> I saw him

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(briony)
the lie that changed everything

34
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(Briony) cast herself as her sister’s protector

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(briony)
she chooses to cast herself as the hero

35
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Cecilia’s repeated suggestion that it was Danny Hardman

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(cee)
depicts the class seperation

36
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lola’s perfume could not conceal a childish whiff

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(Lola)
depicts how Lola is deceptively trying to hide her identity

37
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(Briony believes Robbies’s) decieved us for years

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(robbie)
Briony indicates a duplicitous deceptive side of robbie

38
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being everyone’s mother

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(cee)
indicates how cecilia has a maternal quality

39
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wasting her days

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(cee)
indicates how cecilia believes she is wasting her life

40
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they were beyond the present

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(cee/robbie)
indicates how they forever live on

41
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(Cecilia is his) reason to life …

why he had to survive

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(cee/robbie)
indicates how much they adore each other

42
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he would lose himself in thoughts of her

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(cee/robbie)
indicates how much they adore each other

43
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he was the incarnation of evil

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(briony/robbie)
indicates how much briony villainises him

44
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something elemental, brutal, perhaps even criminal had been introduced … some principal of darkness

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(briony)
briony’s mind

45
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she wanted the inspector to embrace her, comfort her and forgive her

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(briony)
is briony guilty?

46
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a dozen or so dead english soldiers in the road

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(robbie)
demonstrates the brutality of war

47
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there was a constant and pervasive anxiety

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(robbie)
demonstrates the brutality of war

48
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when they shut their eyes they saw those mutilated bodies

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(robbie)
demonstrates the brutality of war

49
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only in nightmares were feet so heavy

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(robbie)
demonstrates the brutality of war

50
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a wild race of men from another world

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(briony)
demonstrates the brutality of war

51
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she had never seen men crying before

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(briony)
demonstrates the brutality of war

52
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leg in a tree

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(robbie)
demonstrates the brutality of war

53
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended

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(robbie)
demonstrates the brutality of war

54
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he was exhausted but not happy

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(robbie)
demonstrates the brutality of war

55
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she couldn’t feel a thing she was empty

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(briony)
demonstrates the brutality of war

56
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The world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her

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(briony)
does this remove her guilt?

57
Q

It was wrong to open people’s letters, but it was right … to know everything.

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(briony)
briony’s control

58
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Wasn’t writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight … of the imagination?

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(briony)
she loves the power it gives her

59
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Wasn’t writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight … of the imagination?

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(briony)
she loves the power it gives her

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