Briony's 'Trials Of Arabella'

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We are introduced to the character of the pretentious 13 year old Briony, through her over active imagination and eagerness for the theatrics and melodramatic stories and plays. Part one entails a description of Briony’s in depth preparations she has taken to put together a play named the ‘Trials of Arabella’ which is written for her brother Leon who has been away for a while- although it is not much this is probably the most amount of success she achieves across the whole story. Within the first few pages of the chapter we can begin to establish a sense of secrecy and a passion of writing… for such a young girl this could be deemed tragic. Briony has been brought up in a wealthy but also lonely household, she spends most of her time alone as a result of a mother who is very distant due to her depression, and her other two siblings who are away for most of the time- she classes herself as a ‘only child’ The firsts lines of the book implicate she has a very creative and intelligent mind …show more content…

Her personality shows traits of obsession and becoming too invested into things ‘causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch’- she does this so she can stick to a deadline of completing her play before her brother gets back. She cares a lot about her brothers perception of her, suggesting is a father figure. Her proactive mind is very advanced for a girl thats only just started to hit puberty “two-day tempest of composition’ the reference to a Shakespeare play displays her literary ambition and her exaggerated personality thats been so obviously shown in her performance. This idea of her just starting her journey into womanhood is portrayed by her strong idea of what love consists of and her idea of a man and woman perfecting each other. This could be because of her traditional family

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