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This paper takes a look at Ian McEwan's book "Atonement". According to the paper, "Atonement" is not a book to be judged according to mainstream ethical and moral standards. This paper shows us how the author believes in telling the story as he envisioned it and lets you decide what the moral outcome should have been.

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"Broiny Tallis is the culprit in the story. She is an unusual protagonist for neither does she possess the sensibilities of an average heroine nor does she appear to be a victim. But having said that, what is really inspiring is that despite her obvious flaws, she is still anything but evil. We can say that a person with a wild imagination like hers is susceptible to making the mistake that she made, only in her case it went a little too far and ruined the lives of two people who were innocent. An aspiring writer, Broiny primary flaw was her overly fertile imagination. She felt that words could give you the power to create anything: "By means of inking symbols onto a page she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's ... You saw the word castle, and it was there, seen from some distance, with woods in high summer spread before it, the air bluish and soft with smoke rising ...". (p. 37). The obsession of playing with words results in a catastrophic situation when she wrongly accuses Robbie of sexually harassing her cousin."

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