After Robbie gives the wrong letter to Briony to pass it to her sister Cecilia, she opens it and reads the content of that letter, and she faces a problem in understanding an offensive term; thus, she goes back by the time and tries to remember if she heard this term once from her family members or in the stories she read, but it seems that the term has never passed through her ears, so she tries to understand it from the context of the letter. She tells Lola later about the letter to show her that she too has secrets to share with others; Lola gets shocked and her reaction confirms Briony’s doubts towards Robbie’s letter.
Briony is disturbed from the letter that Robbie wrote to her sister, not because of the offensive expression; however, the reason behind her disturbance is because she loves Robbie and she was not expecting that he is in love with her sister.
Briony misunderstands some facts that happened between Robbie and her …show more content…
Through the analysis, we extracted pertinent passages and discussed alternatively Briony’s internal conflicts. McEwan depicts his character Briony in a specific psychological and psychosocial milieu; these ingredients have been instrumental to our analysis, for they provided crucial data to the exploration of the character’s identity crisis.
McEwan validates Erikson’s psychosocial stages of identity development, mainly the adolescent stage and the maturity stage of development, by creating Briony who faced a dilemma of comprehending things surrounding her and identifying herself in society at adolescent stage as living with a vascular dementia and regret of her past life at maturity stage. Finally, one can maintain that Ian McEwan is very acknowledgeable of psychoanalysis which enables him to portrait his character within the borderlines of
Briony is disturbed from the letter that Robbie wrote to her sister, not because of the offensive expression; however, the reason behind her disturbance is because she loves Robbie and she was not expecting that he is in love with her sister.
Briony misunderstands some facts that happened between Robbie and her …show more content…
Through the analysis, we extracted pertinent passages and discussed alternatively Briony’s internal conflicts. McEwan depicts his character Briony in a specific psychological and psychosocial milieu; these ingredients have been instrumental to our analysis, for they provided crucial data to the exploration of the character’s identity crisis.
McEwan validates Erikson’s psychosocial stages of identity development, mainly the adolescent stage and the maturity stage of development, by creating Briony who faced a dilemma of comprehending things surrounding her and identifying herself in society at adolescent stage as living with a vascular dementia and regret of her past life at maturity stage. Finally, one can maintain that Ian McEwan is very acknowledgeable of psychoanalysis which enables him to portrait his character within the borderlines of