The mystery of the orangutan’s voice, “about whose nationality no two persons could be found to agree”, normalises the xenophobic attitudes of nineteenth century Parisians. Furthermore, Dupin is quick to dismiss the possibility that it was “the voice of an Asiatic – or of an African” – non-Europeans, we learn, have no appreciable presence and no role in contemporary European society...
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Furthermore, Dupin is quick to dismiss the possibility that it was “the voice of an Asiatic – or of an African” – non-Europeans, we learn, have no appreciable presence and no role in contemporary European society. There are a number of images of savagery in the story, and the contrast between savage and civilised becomes an implicit motif...
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Atonement Briony's novel is entirely autobiographical, the six decades that pass between her first and final draft have altered her character. She can no longer narrate as the 13 year old girl on the brink of adolescence she was when the crime occurred...	3 / 808
Atonement It’s funny that this is the title of the novel, because in the whole book, not once does Briony atone for her actions. We read that she really does understand fully what her actions have done, but it makes me think that she really doesn’t regret anything that she did...	2 / 539
atonement Robbie is released three and a half years later on the condition that he join the British Expeditionary Force in France. Wounded by shrapnel, Robbie and two corporals make their hazardous way to Dunkirk for evacuation...	2 / 440
Judging Lines Between Imagination And Reality In Attonment I feel that Briony at times felt homesick, but not in the typical way a person would feel homesick. I thought that Briony feels homesick for her imaginative life when something real life happens...	6 / 1522