atonement key themes - hmk quotes
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- Key themes
- War
- Shreds of striped cloth with blackened edges, remains of
curtains or clothing, and a smashed in window frame
- ‘a soup of smells - the sticky sour odour of fresh blood’
- She was crying onto his cheek, and her sorrowed stretched her
lips onto his
- Love
- ‘it seemed theatrical to Briony, and ridiculous, grown young women tearful for their mothers
- His most sensual memories…were bleached colourless with overuse
- Love
- He walked / across / the land / until / he came / to the sea.
A hexameter
- The unchangeable past
- ‘She lay in the dark and knew everything’
- something irreducibly human, or male, threatened the
order of her household’
- 'maniac'
- ‘The lady swallowed a fly’ à ‘her immediate understanding…he looks so huge and wild and Celia with her bare shoulders and thin arms so frail’
- Within the half hour Briony would commit her crime.
- She marched into the labyrinth of her own construction
- They chose to believe the evidence of a silly, hysterical little girl
- The unchangeable past
- You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die? – ‘the witnesses were guilty too. All day we’ve witnessed each other’s crimes’
- Shreds of striped cloth with blackened edges, remains of
curtains or clothing, and a smashed in window frame
- The unchangeable past
- ‘She lay in the dark and knew everything’
- something irreducibly human, or male, threatened the
order of her household’
- 'maniac'
- ‘The lady swallowed a fly’ à ‘her immediate understanding…he looks so huge and wild and Celia with her bare shoulders and thin arms so frail’
- Within the half hour Briony would commit her crime.
- She marched into the labyrinth of her own construction
- They chose to believe the evidence of a silly, hysterical little girl
- Guilt/ Atonement
- ‘Briony’s shrine to
her controlling demon’
- Her wish for a harmonious, organised world denied her the recklessness possibilities of wrongdoing’
- ‘Bite it,’ he said softly. ‘You’ve got to bite it.
- ‘sent her worthless torso flying’
- ‘Paul Marshall said, ‘Nonsense. Name a single rule that
changes.’
- War
- Shreds of striped cloth with blackened edges, remains of
curtains or clothing, and a smashed in window frame
- ‘a soup of smells - the sticky sour odour of fresh blood’
- She was crying onto his cheek, and her sorrowed stretched her
lips onto his
- Love
- ‘it seemed theatrical to Briony, and ridiculous, grown young women tearful for their mothers
- His most sensual memories…were bleached colourless with overuse
- Love
- He walked / across / the land / until / he came / to the sea.
A hexameter
- You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die? – ‘the witnesses were guilty too. All day we’ve witnessed each other’s crimes’
- Shreds of striped cloth with blackened edges, remains of
curtains or clothing, and a smashed in window frame
- War
- 'penance'
- Loss of innocence
- ‘Briony’s shrine to
her controlling demon’
- Her wish for a harmonious, organised world denied her the recklessness possibilities of wrongdoing’
- Then I’ll thank you not to talk about them in front of the children…she had uttered it in blind faith, like an apprentice mouthing the incantation of a magnus’
- ‘sent her worthless torso flying’
- It was hard to believe that barely a hundred miles away was a military disaster
- ‘Briony’s shrine to
her controlling demon’
- Loss of innocence
- A child…raging drunk on cognac, he had even conjured her onto
the end of her Bayonet. Briony and Danny Hardman.
- ‘Briony had thought she was joining the war effort
- “How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.”
- ‘Briony’s shrine to
her controlling demon’
- Loss of innocence
- Then I’ll thank you not to talk about them in front of the children…she had uttered it in blind faith, like an apprentice mouthing the incantation of a magnus’
- It was hard to believe that barely a hundred miles away was a military disaster
- War
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