Robbie
- Created by: emi2266
- Created on: 19-01-22 19:31
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- Robbie
- Victim
- Briony's lies
- Class
- War
- Trauma
- About Him
- 23 yrs old - Son of Tallis' charlady, absent father
- Close friend w/ Leon & C, older brother figure to B
- Intelligent - Jack Tallis pays for his education
- Landscape work for the Tallis' - thinking abt going back to school for medicine
- Key Moments
- Fountain Scene - breaking of the vase
- Thinking in the bath, writing the letter
- Sex w/ C in the library - B witnessed it
- Going alone to look for the twins
- Falsely accused, arrested and charged - 3yrs in prison
- Serving in the army
- Meeting C in the Cafe
- Horrors & suffering of war
- Swimming Lesson w/ B - saved her *FLASHBACK
- Death b/c of septicaemia - Dunkirk
- Telling B what she should do *LIES*
- Motives
- Internal
- Love for C
- Wish to be a doctor
- Kindness
- Depression b/c of prison
- External
- Class
- Perceptions of men
- Internal
- Quotes
- 'he was one of the most confident people she had ever met’
- ‘In my dreams I kiss your ****, your sweet wet ****. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long’
- 'He had spent his childhood moving freely between the bungalow and the main house. Jack Tallis was his patron, Leon and Cecilia were his best friends’
- ‘Robbie discovered that he was cleverer than many of the people he met’
- 'it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him’
- 'he was happy and therefore bound to succeed’
- 'his adult life had begun. There was a story he was plotting with himself as the hero’
- ‘there was only one inevitable end, and there was nothing they could do but go towards it’
- ‘he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can ever quite cheapen. She repeated them…these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract’
- ‘would go out searching alone. This decision, as he was to acknowledge many times, transformed his life’
- ‘their prisoner’
- 'He acted like an officer, but he didn’t even have a single stripe’
- ‘the wound throbbed uncomfortably
- ‘And there was hope. I’ll wait for you. Come back. There was a chance, just a chance, of getting back, He had her last letter in his pocket and her new address. This is why he had to survive’
- ‘Robbie knew better than anyone how she loved her brother, how close she was to her family, and how much the house and park meant to her…it troubled him to think that she was destroying a part of herself for his sake
- ‘he walked/ across/ the land/ until/ he came/ to the sea. A hexameter. Five iambs and an anapaest was the beat he trampled to now’
- ‘He acknowledged the courage it would require for her to go back to the law and deny the evidence she had given under oath. But he did not think his resentment of her could ever be erased. Yes, she was a child at the time, and he did not forgive her. He would never forgive her. That was the lasting damage’
- ‘The story could resume…He and Cecilia would no longer be isolated. Their love would have space and a society to grow in
- ‘His business was simple. Find Cecilia and lover her, marry her, and live without shame’
- ‘I’d risk my life for yours. But that doesn’t mean I love you’
- 'His business was to survive, though he had forgotten why’
- ‘You’re eighteen. How much growing up do you need to do? There are soldiers dying in the field at eighteen. Old enough to be left to die on the roads. Did you know that?’
- I want to find him…I want to kill him’
- 'Robbie said softly, ‘Just do all the things we’ve asked.’ It was almost conciliatory, that ‘just’, but not quite, not yet’
- 'he saw how fine it really was that she was waiting…I’ll wait for you was elemental. It was the reason he had survived’
- Victim
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