Topic > Theme of Self-Reflection in the Atonement - 1145

"Self-reflection" can be defined as a provisional means of exploration based on the affirmation that reality is made up of objects and events. As they are clear in “human consciousness” and not in anything independent of human conscious experience, where the self becomes an object unto itself. The novels that give an idea of ​​“self-reflectivity” are “Atonement” by Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood. Both of these novels are associated with tangible revelations of self-reflection. Ian McEwan's novel “Atonement” declares “a conversation with modernism and its dereliction of duty,” consequently drawing attention to his trepidation with modern history and the moral principles of fiction. . The novel insinuates that the modernist intertext of the novel is a “pre-text.” It is a fabricated, fictitious form of text to repress true reason. For Self-Examination and Atonement, a reliving of the author's ethically troubling early works. Atonement revises modernism and McEwan's early fiction in the reversible sense of the term. Trying to ask for forgiveness and positively highlight, name and atone for past misdeeds. In addition to “Briony Tallis,” the protagonist's one lie, it clearly sent a ripple effect through the other characters. The characters in the novel also had the opportunity to atone for their lives. The character of “Robbie” is the most expressive about guilt, remorse and salvation as he views it as “Dunkirk”. His wishes were simple enough: to be absolved of Lola's rape. The complete erasure of his name would have been seen as a form of atonement that would have ushered him into a new life. However, a little more difficulty develops within Robbie, the awareness that a and more... in the middle of the paper... throughout the first section of the novel. Later, when he begins to write books of his own and tells the story of Robbie and Cecilia in his modern way, he overturns his childhood belief in simplicity and unity of interpretation. Now she is convinced that the interpretations are many and ambiguous, that as a writer she does not have the task of providing clear messages to her readers. The protagonist holds back for fear of another misunderstanding and only offers vagueness. He eventually comes to believe that this is not enough and that his lack of enthusiasm to understand is rather an act of weakness. Author McEwan explores the fragile nature of interpretation and the boundaries beyond which readers are no longer justified in making insinuations and verdicts. This message lies at the very heart of “Atonement” which comes from “self-reflection"..”