What does the first blackberry taste bring in Heaney’s poem?
Intense sensual pleasure.
What transforms the blackberry experience into undiluted pain in Heaney’s poem?
Discovering the “rat-grey fungus.”
What effect does the speaker’s childhood innocence have on small disappointments in Heaney’s poem?
It makes them seem like real calamities and intensifies his emotional suffering.
How does Briony interpret the library encounter after reading Robbie’s letter?
She believes Robbie is a “maniac” assaulting or raping Lola.
What makes Briony’s mistaken interpretation of events so consequential?
Her innocence and naivety magnify her disappointment and shape her misinterpretation.
What does Robbie fear being revealed at the dinner table?
That his letter used the word “cunt” and that he and Cecilia had sex in the library.
What does the letter Briony has announce?
The twins have run away.
What pattern does Emily see between Hermione and Jack?
She sees herself as wronged by both Hermione and Jack.
What social realities does McEwan depict in upper-class England in 1935?
The position of women within upper-class England.
What does Leon do to Emily when he returns?
He takes the role of “the master of the house,” snatches the phone from Emily, tells her to sit down, and turns his back to speak to his father, leaving her excluded and alone.
What does hamartia mean in tragedy?
A fatal flaw connected to a character’s downfall or undoing.
What is Briony’s fatal flaw?
Pride in her creative imagination.
How does Briony imagine her role in life?
As both its author and a character in it.
What special powers does Briony believe her creativity gives her?
Special powers over life.
What leads Briony to ruin Robbie’s life and suffer guilt?
Her pride and mistaken accusation against Robbie.
Which phrase in Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy” presents pain and pleasure as inseparable?
“Aching Pleasure.”
Which poet uses “aching Pleasure” in “Ode on Melancholy”?
Keats.
Which rhyme contributes to the gloomy ending of Heaney’s poem?
“Red / not.”
What bitter feeling does the speaker express at the end of Heaney’s poem?
He feels like crying because it wasn’t fair.
Which poet also uses the relatively rare word “glut” in “Ode on Melancholy”?
Keats.
How does the adult Briony narrator explore her childhood disappointment in *Atonement*?
She vents her frustration on the nettles and sublimates it into a chymic exploit.
How does Emily view Hermione’s life in relation to her own?
As imposed upon her own life.
What does the course caution about childhood and adult life?
It is too simplistic to say childhood determines adult life.
How does Emily’s childhood feel to her?
Like a ghost that haunts her.
How does Emily describe her ten-year-old self?
Tangible and close enough to touch.
What image does Emily use for her relationship with the past?
“Shot silk”.
Que signifie « to weave » ?
Tisser.
Que signifie « weaving » ?
Tissage.
What does Briony congratulate herself on understanding?
Her own ignorance, which she calls a “wise grasp.”
What does Briony’s pseudo-maturity hide?
Her failure to understand life beyond the nursery.
What does Briony’s use of “crime” acknowledge?
Her guilt and the gravity of her accusation against Robbie.
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1. Dans le poème de Heaney, qu’est-ce qui transforme le plaisir initial de la dégustation des mûres en douleur sans mélange ?
2. Pourquoi un événement apparemment mineur provoque-t-il une souffrance émotionnelle intense chez le locuteur enfant de Heaney ?
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