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How Does Briony Deteriorate Her Mother

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“Briony and Cecilia had a typical sister to sister relationship. How does the relationship deteriorate over time?”
In my novel, forming Briony and Cecilia’s relationship needed to be strong, always caring and being able to rely on each other. Although their relationship deteriorates over time, this does not change the connection the two had, once before. Briony's character is created to be naïve, always “clinging on to what she believes” (page 170), while everyone around her is how she thinks they should be. Whereas, Cecilia's character has a more understanding of the world around her, having her own ways to live her life, instead of "wasting her days" (page 21) doing nothing. Due to Briony’s characteristics, her unwanted behaviour creates unexpected events, destroying her relationship with Cecilia. Conflict is shown …show more content…

Cecilia wants to believe Robbie wouldn't do such a thing “[knowing exactly]” (page 134) how they felt about each other. This impacted Cecilia on how she should intemperate her relationship with her younger sister, lying about her lover. However, Briony's decision soon becomes weary not knowing what the future holds, and afraid that what she has done, is incorrect. Later in the book, Briony attempts to meet up with her sister, to try and make up for her mistakes, but her decision long ago had already decided the fate of her relationship with Cecilia. In the end, Briony was never able to atone for her mistakes with Cecilia, and to compensate her sadness, creating a happy ending for Cecilia and Robbie together seemed like the best decision to help redeem

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