Lan Mcewan Atonement Comparison

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Lan McEwan “Atonement”Begning and ending Characters.
Atonement is the most recognised piece of fiction by Ian McEwan. The film was directed by joe wright,starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley. The beginning of the film talks about Tallis family with the focused on Briony Tallis a thirteen years old girl, the younger sister of Cecilia Tallis. Briony was a petulant child also the protagonist of the film. Cecilia was in love with Robbie Turner from charwoman family. Briony witness a scene between Cecilia and Robbie and began to envious her sister and form imagination at of her jealousy and wickedness she misinterpreted romantic encounter between her elder sister Cecilia and Robbie. Briony falsefully implicate Robbie in the rape of her cousin …show more content…

Compare the presentation of the two character the beginning versus the ending I feel cheated. Because Robbie intended to go school and become a medical doctor which he never achieved due to the misconception of Briony that lead him in jam for three years. In my opinion there is no way Briony could have achieved atonement because nothing can change the damage she has Robbie. Although at the ending of the film she was trying to makeup and feel so bad for wrong false accusation to me it was too late. It is highly unlikely that briony felt redeemed. I blame briony for the false accusation against Robbie also at the fountain Briony saw her sister Cecelia making love with her lover Robbie she mistakes it for assault that Robbie want to harm Cecilia confirming her imagination as if its real using the word “I saw him, I saw him, I saw him” I also blame Cecilia who could not defend her lover. This make the family believed Robbie is a rapist. Briony as child at the beginning of the film shown to be deceitful. Even if she was trying to separate the real world from the imaginary world she creates in her head.at eighteen she become a nurse and feel guilt stricken for the wrongdoing and at the end Briony become an elderly woman she was diagnose with encroaching

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