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Mcewan ian atonement5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Briony has realized too late that Robbie was not guilty of the rape and now feels that there is nothing she can do to correct this and she must atone for her sins the hard way.Īt the end of the novel, we flash forward to the 1990's, when Briony is an old woman. Briony, meanwhile, becomes a nurse in London and loses touch with her sister, who has never forgiven her for accusing Robbie. Robbie is imprisoned for 3 years, after which he agrees to be conscripted into the war so that he can get the rest of his sentence thrown away. Briony's sister, Cecilia, who is in love with Robbie, defends him and later breaks away from her family in anger over their siding with Briony. Later, when a cousin of the family is raped, Briony tells the police that it was Robbie who committed the assault and he is arrested on her word alone. Briony sees Robbie, a family friend, in a passionate embrace with her older sister and assumes that he is attacking her. It is set in the English countryside during the mid-1930's and revolves around a false accusation of rape placed against a man named Robbie Turner by a young girl named Briony Tallis. ![]() The novel's main theme are the idea of personal atonement and owning up to one's past mistakes. ![]()
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