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1
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Setting and briony

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There is a connection between briony and setting

“The temple was the orphan of a grand society lady, and now, with no one to care for it, no one to look up , the child has grown old before it’s time and let itself go

2
Q

Name 3 settings

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Ww2 France - lawless/ chaos/ crime against humanity.

London during war- brionys atonement / suffering of mankind

London 1999- epilogue

3
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2 crimes

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Rape of Lola

Brionys false accusation / act of perjury

4
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Potential motives to brionys crime

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Crush on Robbie

5
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Violence

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Part 1 - small violent / subtle.
Bruise on Lola’s arm anticipates the rape.

Part 2 - war / brutal / public crime

Part 3 - aftermath of violence / consequence as we are suffering soldiers

6
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Betrayal

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B betrays Robbie snd C and that’s why she stones

B also betrays reader

7
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Detective

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No legal detective

Briony takes on the role for being detective for a crime she has herself imagined.

She pieces together the events of the day - fountain scene / robbies letter / library scene

8
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Victims

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Lola - rape / neglect- primary victims

C and R secondary victims of brionys lie - miscarriage of justice

Briony - of her own crime / neglect

9
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How is brionys crime a legal crime

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Perverting the course of justice

But more importantly a moral crime - ramifications last a life time

10
Q

Define ramification

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Unwelcome consequence

11
Q

“She was entering an area of adult emotion and assembling from which her writing was bound to benefit. What fairy tale ever held so much by way of contradiction”

PAGE 106

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Pivotal
Past work as fairy takes
When she opens letter she knows she’s entering a new chapter of her life
This letter makes her think Robbie is vulgar / crude

From this point onwards their relationship exponentially deteriorates ultimately until robbies death

12
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“From this new and intimate perspective , she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew : that a person is, along all else , a material thing , easily torn , not easily mended”

PAGE 287

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This is in reference to a horrific night she experienced as a nurse.

She realises that destroyed a person can happen so easily, but fixing them is almost impossible .
She can’t fix Robbie/ C

13
Q

“Their love neither briony nor the war had destroyed it”

PAGE 330

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Despite Bs selfish / immature actions that lead to the permanent splitting of C/R - nothing was able to break their love.

Her actions / nor war was able to destroy it because they died stoll passionately in love - nothing could take that away