Briony lies to her mother and family (including Paul Marshall, Leon, and her cousins) that Robbie hurt Lola in their quest for the missing twins. She also says Robbie tried to hurt Cecilia in the study previous to the family dinner. Some might say that Briony genuinely thought it was Robbie. However, references to page 159 (…she would have preferred to qualify, or complicate, her use of the word “saw.” Less like seeing, more like knowing.) and 160 (she trapped herself, she marched into the labrynth of her own construction, and was too young, too awestruck, too keen to please, to insist on making her own way back) speak otherwise. There was obviously a doubt in her mind that it was indeed Robbie, however, her encounter with Robbie and his obscene letter to her sister was enough to let Briony lose all respect for him.

Briony obviously had her own motivations in turning Robbie in without any real, concrete evidence that it was Robbie that hurt Lola. It starts with the strange observation she made at the fountain. Cecilia wet and undressed down to her underwear with Robbie certainly must have made a lasting impression on lit

The most clear outcome of the deception is separation of Robbie and Cecilia Tallis, the two passionate lovers of the story (and eventually, Robbie’s death in bray dunes). It separated the family and set everyone on their own path. Robbie onto becoming an army man, Cecilia a nurse living alone and Briony becoming a repentant nurse. Lola and Paul Marshall go on to be celebrities of England thanks to Robbie who received the blame. In the end, the guilt of her deception drove her to meet with Robbie and Cecilia, although she wasn’t welcomed.

Are the effects of the deception negative, positive or both?

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