July 18, 2011
Pages 106 & 107
"With the letter, something elemental, brutal, perhaps even criminal had been introduced, some principle of darkness, and even in her excitement over the possibilities, she did not doubt that her sister was in some way threatened and would need her help."
The letter is a symbol of Robbie's love to Cecilia. It gets misinterpreted into something evil -almost as if it was a villain. The letter did introduce something criminal. It introduced the "crime" Briony was going to commit, and how excited she was about the possibilities of it. The way the passage is written tries to make you think she is doing the deed out of love for her sister, and wanting to protect her. But in the end it ends up destroying and killing her beloved sister.
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