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“…the novel is itself the act of atonement that Briony Tallis needs to perform; yet we are very much in the land of an unreliable narrator, where evasion and mendacity both shadow and undermine the story that is told”. How far do you agree?
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Atonement When criticising Ian McEwan's award-winning Atonement, Nicholas Lezard states, "...the novel is itself the act of atonement that Briony Tallis needs to perform; yet we are very much in the land of an unreliable narrator, where evasion and mendacity both shadow and undermine the story that is told". In the hot summer of 1935, a thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a sexual act between Robbie and her older sister Cecilia. Her lack of maturity and understanding of adult behaviour leads her to commit a crime that would affect many of those around her. Years later, as Briony realizes her mistake, she tries to expiate for her sins by writing an atonement, which we are followed through in the novel. However, we are left in the hands of a very unreliable narrator and are faced with possibilities of evasion and misleading information. Therefore, the reader must question weather or not the author...
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