Respect One’s Privacy
Chelsea Gividen
Courtney Chadwick
Amanda Addair
The character Briony Tallis on numerous occasions
disrespected and invaded Cecilia Tallis and Robbie
Turners privacy.
This caused a great deal of distress and agony in
everyone’s lives preceding that night.
“Will you run ahead and give this note to Cee?”
(Robbie Turner)
…. “A savage and thoughtless curiosity prompted her to
rip the letter from its envelope---she read it in the hall”…
This first action chosen by Briony pressed the
boundaries of privacy since the letter was not meant for
her to read.
By reading the letter Briony invaded the privacy of both
Robbie and Cecilia.
After reading this in her mind she found Robbie to be
something as a dangerous maniac that would try to hurt
again. Not only through words but by an action.
Making assumptions lead her to make other decisions.
When Robbie asks Briony to give the letter to Cecilia, to where Briony rips the
letter open.
“It was these thoughts of him that made her slow as she passed the library door
which, unusually, was closed. She stopped to listen…..
At first, when she pushed open the door and stepped in…”
After reading the letter Briony’s mindset was
weary, creating a suspicion for everything.
This made her curious enough to enter the
library.
When Briony walks into the library and catches Robbie and Cecilia in the act….
“Cecilia moved round him, into Briony’s view.
“Briony? Briony, did you read this?” …
“Where’s the envelope?”
Briony turned her face away again and laughed wildly at something Leon was
telling her.”
This angers Cecilia and leads her away from her
sister because she is disgusted by her choice.
This shows that Briony must have known that
she was invading Robbie and Cecilia’s privacy
without any disregard since she removed the
letter from an enclosed envelope.
When Cecilia asked Briony if she read the letter and Briony ignored her and talked
with Leon
“She ran along the second floor corridor to Cecilia’s room … The first drawer
she tried … she pulled open another drawer … she reentered the drawing
room in triumph” …
“How dare you! How dare you all!”
“It belongs to me,” she shouted. “You have absolutely no right!”
Briony invaded Cecilia’s privacy by ransacking
through her room and wardrobe to find
Robbie’s letter.
Once she finds the letter she disrespected
Robbie and Cecilia’s privacy even more by giving
the letter to the investigators, Leon , and her
mother Emily to read.
When Briony goes through Cecilia's dresser to retrieve the letter to give it to the
investigators.
“I’m very very sorry. I’ve caused you such terrible distress.” They
continued to stare at her, and she repeated herself. “I’m very sorry.”
This quote is to mainly show that Briony’s actions of
disrespecting and invading Cecilia and Robbie’s
privacy destroyed their lives.
Now Briony is very regretful for the choices she had
made when she was a child.
The confrontation scene when Robbie yells at Briony, which she eventually
apologizes.
Conclusion
It is important to respect people’s privacy because if
you do not it may cause trouble like it did for Briony.
If Briony would have respected Robbie and Cecilia’s
privacy and had never opened the letter none of the
preceding events would have happened.
Robbie and Cecilia would be alive and together, Paul
Marshall would most likely be in jail, and the Tallis family
would have never fallen apart.