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Summary A* ENGLISH LITERATURE CRIME WRITING PART B COMPARISON ESSAY - MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD AND ATONEMENT ‘In spite of the crimes which are committed, order is always restored at the end.’ Explore the significance of order in two crime texts you have studied in$5.71
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Summary A* ENGLISH LITERATURE CRIME WRITING PART B COMPARISON ESSAY - MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD AND ATONEMENT ‘In spite of the crimes which are committed, order is always restored at the end.’ Explore the significance of order in two crime texts you have studied in
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A* ENGLISH LITERATURE CRIME WRITING PART B COMPARISON ESSAY - MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD AND ATONEMENT
‘In spite of the crimes which are committed, order is always restored at the end.’ Explore the significance of order in two crime texts you have studied in the light of this comment.
‘In spite of the crimes which are committed,
order is always restored at the end.ʼ Explore
the significance of order in two crime texts you
have studied in the light of this comment.
‘In spite of the crimes which are committed, order is always restored at the end.ʼ
Explore the significance of order in two crime texts you have studied in the light of this
comment. Remember to include in your answer relevant detailed exploration of the authorsʼ
methods.
Atonement and Murder of Roger Ackroyd - [25 marks]
Dr Sheppard being allowed to kill himself not a restoration of order.
Golden Age of Crime being a restoration of order. Detectives role was to restore order.
Poirot follows his own personal code where he desires discovering the truth that is his
restoration of order.
Christie disrupting the natural order of the detective novel through her use of the narrator
as the criminal.
Is natural order really restored when the characters are so vile?
Paul Marshall becoming a Lord, the Greek temple being destroyed and Briony becoming a
successful author not being justice.
Briony being self-dramatising until the end. It can be stated that she spends years writing
a confession without actually confessing. The victims already being dead and not forgiving
Briony.
For centuries, crime fiction has allowed writers to explore the idea of ‘restoration of natural
orderʼ which uses comes in the punishment, forgiveness, or discovery of the crime. Atonement
and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd provide different approaches to this element of crime, where
critics have stated Christieʼs novel to revolve around the restoration of natural order at the
‘denouementʼ where the detective ‘reveals allʼ fulfilling his purpose and allowing the previously
golden and sunny society to thrive. Atonement, on the other hand, has a more vague approach
to whether or not Brionyʼs Atonement is a restoration of order – arguably leaving it up to the
reader to decide and conclude the novel with their own opinions. In this essay I will therefore
discuss the extent of which in relation to the crimes in the novel ‘order is always restored at the
endʼ.
As Chapter 25 titled ‘The Whole Truthʼ ends, and Poirot builds up the image of the criminal in
the readers minds which we begin searching for in each list of predictable suspects which we
are provided with. It is a shock to 1920s and modern audiences alike through the revelation of
Dr Sheppard with the shocking direct address by Poirot; “in fact - Dr Sheppard” is the
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