이언 매큐언의 속죄: 신뢰할 수 없는 서술자에 의한 환상의 속죄와 용서
Unreliable Narration and the Fantasy of Atonement and Forgiveness in Ian McEwan’s Atonement
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This article analyzes the process of atoning and forgiving in Ian McEwan’s metafictional novel Atonement. Briony Tallis is a writer and the main character of the novel, who composes her own work Two Figures by a Fountain. Her story, based on her observations of a night in her teen years, focuses on her older sister Cecilia Tallis and Cecilia’s romantic interest, Robbie Turner. Briony consciously employs a self-reflective form of fiction to manipulate events into a happy ending in an attempt to atone for a childhood blunder that ruined Cecilia’s and Robbie’s lives. In the final chapter, McEwan includes a diary entry from Briony. Now in her seventies, Briony reveals that both Robbie and Cecilia died in the Second World War and confesses that she fabricated her happy ending to atone for her childhood misdeeds. If we understand how Briony is an unreliable narrator, we can also understand how McEwan positions her in a way where she is unable to atone. She desires forgiveness, but there is no one there to forgive her. McEwan highlights how narratives are multidimensional and can be interpreted from different perspectives. He also connects the novel’s events to a wider social context beyond the individual consequences of betrayal, disease, assault, and deceit.
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This article analyzes the process of atoning and forgiving in Ian McEwan’s metafictional novel Atonement. Briony Tallis is a writer and the main character of the novel, who composes her own work Two Figures by a Fountain. Her story, based on her observations of a night in her teen years, focuses on her older sister Cecilia Tallis and Cecilia’s romantic interest, Robbie Turner. Briony consciously employs a self-reflective form of fiction to manipulate events into a happy ending in an attempt to atone for a childhood blunder that ruined Cecilia’s and Robbie’s lives. In the final chapter, McEwan includes a diary entry from Briony. Now in her seventies, Briony reveals that both Robbie and Cecilia died in the Second World War and confesses that she fabricated her happy ending to atone for her childhood misdeeds. If we understand how Briony is an unreliable narrator, we can also understand how McEwan positions her in a way where she is unable to atone. She desires forgiveness, but there is no one there to forgive her. McEwan highlights how narratives are multidimensional and can be interpreted from different perspectives. He also connects the novel’s events to a wider social context beyond the individual consequences of betrayal, disease, assault, and deceit.
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