Briony Tallis: The Trials Of Arabella

As the story progresses we come to understand the reason behind all of this. Unfortunately her home life is not the best as she lost her brother and her mother a victim of attempting

She knew they couldn’t get pulled over because her father had stolen plates off of another vehicle. She also saw her parents steal money from a casino in Las Vegas. She learned to fight when the kids started to pick on her in an alley. The first time the girls beat her up, but the second time her brother jumped in and they fought the other girls together. Her family gives her tough lessons in life and they leave her to figure most of it out on her own.

Her mother died when she was at a young age, though that made her become more determined with the desire to expose her mother to the world and gain new

I am too stupid to be a midwife's apprentice and too tired to wander again. I should just lie here in the rain until I die.” Her self esteem did increase, a lot. This happened in chapter 17 gets the choice to help Magister Reese with his widowed sister and wished to employ Alyce, take care of the new baby in Salisbury, staying with Jannett at the inn, or going off on her own. She thought to herself “ What to do?

As they are burying her brother, she finds a small, black book hidden in the snow and picks it up, so beginning her reputation and title of the book thief. Upon arrival her foster home, she is very shy at first, but develops a good relationship with her foster father. As she adjusts to

She creates stories and makes assumptions. She also prefers to talk, not listen. For example, when Beth and Calvin go to play golf, Calvin tells Beth that Conrad “needs to know that you don’t hate him”. She gets defensive immediately and starts to accuse Conrad of telling lies to his father, convinced that Conrad is against her. She shows signs of violence, including labeling Instead, she should control her stories and presume that people are basically good.

By observing Briony’s character through Erikson’s perspectives, we will come across two of his eight stages. First, when Briony is at the age of thirteen, when a child enters the adolescent

Eventually she ends up falling in love with Adrian. She is betrayed by her sister when her sister turns her into the alchemists for her loving a Moroi. Once the alchemist discover this they capture her and send her to re-education. Re-education is a inhumane and brutal path of “recovery”.

Although she is innocent in the beginning of the novel, she becomes a mature and understanding child throughout the course of the novel triggered by the trial of Tom Robinson. In the novel To

As a 13 year-old girl, she “is an author first and a girl on the verge of entering adolescence second” (Finney 3). She misunderstands the quarrel between her sister Cecilia and Robbie beside the old diving pool and considers herself as a savior to save her sister from the evil Robbie. Ian McEwan firstly uses the third-person viewpoint to tell the story and then he changes to retell it from the viewpoint of Briony. The differences demonstrate by the two viewpoints highlight the prejudice and misunderstanding that Briony possesses. This incident marks the beginning of Briony’s mistake.

Her changing helped her end up with her son when she was killed just like

Even though she wrote the book, Briony explains that she will never feel completely forgiven and that Robbie and Cecilia will never experience their atonement in real

Briony wants her stories to be a reality so badly that she genuinely believes that Robbie is the rapist as he is also the villain in her stories as well. It’s not until she is 18 and watching the marriage of Lola and Paul Marshall that she actually realises that the person that raped Lola was Paul Marshall and not Robbie. This is done through the use of a flashback to this moment when Briony actually sees the faces of Paul Marshall in the Grotto five years ago. These flashbacks and shifts in narrative perspective become more and more significant as the film proceeds. They not only show events in more detail but they also show the implications of Briony’s lies and deceitfulness.

Before we are introduced to Briony, the camera pans over her bedroom and a model of the Tallis house, filled with carefully arranged model figures, she has organised her characters telling a story. This shows that Briony enjoys controlling her surroundings, whether it be her toys or the lives of her friends and family. The pan over the model house also foreshadows the events that are soon to occur in the Tallis house. Briony’s confident nature is emphasised as she walks along the halls in military steps, along with the soundtrack of the typewriter increasing its intensity and power. This foreshadows Briony’s “story” of Robbie’s accusation of rape and it is associated throughout the film with Briony, restating that she is telling a “story” and all that is being followed is a consequence of her actions.

Briony opens the letter and reads it before giving it to Cecilia. In it, she sees that Robbie has perverse wishes to Cecilia. We learn that Robbie's letter was another letter he meant to destroy and he gave Briony that letter by mistake. While at dinner Briony, finds Cecilia and Robbie in the library having intercourse. Briony mistakes it as an assault toward sher sister and decides that Robbie is a crazy man.