1. What sort of social and cultural setting does the Tallis House create? What emotions and impulses are being acted upon or repressed by its inhabitants? The Tallis house seemed to be an old and big house, with a big yard. It showed that the family had power and money, they were a high class family. In its inhabitants, the high class family does not allow Cecilia to have a relationship with Robbie.
2. A passion for order, a lively imagination, and a desire for attention seem to be Briony's strongest traits. In what ways is she still a child? Is her narcissism her inability to see things from any point of view but her own unusual in a thirteen-year-old?
As she believes that she is an adult, she thinks to know what is happening between Robbie and Cecilia, and trying to help her sister she lies about who was guilty. I think as she thinks to understand everything that is happening, she doesn't see the facts from another perspective.
3. Why does Briony stick to her "version of the story" with such unwavering commitment? Does she act entirely in error in a situation she is not old enough to understand, or does she act, in part, on an impulse of malice, revenge, or self-importance?
Because she is still a child, although Briony doesn't believe that, she doesn't see everything that is happening, and for example, when she is watching from the window, the doesn't see what really happens and thinking as an adult believes other things. This makes her think that Robbie is dangerous for her sister, so she tries to keep him away from her.
4. As she grows older, Briony develops the empathy to realize what she has done to Cecilia and Robbie. How and why do you think she does this?
Just by growing up and maybe putting herself in the place of Cecilia, from an older point o f view she realizes that what she did to Robbie and Cecilia was wrong.
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