Atonement part one key quotes - chapter eight

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A fauvist -
used bold colours in their paintings
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tiny...sealed...small...wedged -
Robbie is trapped by his class
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Triangular
darkness - ******
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Now he saw it
was a strange beauty - Robbie about Cecilia, both want to be free
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The unmade
bed - Robbie, just like Cecilia's room, or is that part of Briony's atonment
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He had bleated
out his yes - Robbie, to have lunch at the Tallis', bleating sheep, foreshadows sacrifice, cut off from Tallis's
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She was a force, she could drive him out
of his depth and pull him under - Robbie about Cecilia, foreshadows dangerous relationship
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He should never see her again.
He had to see her tonight - Robbie about Cecilia, juxtposes
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Barely six foot long
and five feet wide - Robbie's corridoor, like a coffin
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His hiking gear - boots
alpenstock, leather knapsack - Robbie, foreshadows war
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Gray's anatomy -
something Robbie is interested in
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Twelfth night...
Molvolio.... how apt - Robbie, links to how he thinks he has a chance with Cecilia
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Grace and Ernest -
names of Robbie's parents, God's grace, Ernis was a name that was highly respected
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Barefoot -
sign of madness - Robbie
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Surely Freud had something to say about that.....
and so did Keats, Shakespeare and Petrarch - Robbie, shows intelligence
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In my dreams I kiss your
****, your sweet wet **** - Robbie, many connotations to the use of the word
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The difficult birth was
followed by Emily's long term illness - about Briony
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The poor little
lambs -cousins, lambs get sent to a slaughter house
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tiny...sealed...small...wedged -

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Robbie is trapped by his class

Card 3

Front

Triangular

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Card 4

Front

Now he saw it

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

The unmade

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Preview of the front of card 5
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