Briony’s The Trail of Arabella is written and performed much in the same fashion as Jane Austen’s juvenile plays. Both women wrote plays in their youth and Austen was known to put on plays with her family members to entertain guests. Austen is described as having always known she wanted to be a writer and wrote extensively in her youth. Jane Austen was a writer from a young age, much like Briony. Ian McEwan also draws a parallel between Jane Austen and Briony Tallis.īriony Tallis is much like Jane Austen in both her temperament and the particulars of her life. McEwan alludes to Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park the most heavily, but there are subtle references to all Jane Austen’s novels. McEwan’s use of literary allusions, specifically to Jane Austen and her works, shows that all novels and ideas are affected by their predecessors. She tries throughout Atonement to reconcile her own views with those of the “great” literary works of the past. Briony is a thirteen year old girl, who grapples with what she thinks makes good fiction. Robbie and Cecelia both studied literature at Cambridge, and Briony is an aspiring author. Briony Tallis, her elder sister Cecelia, and their childhood friend Robbie Turner are characters all heavily influenced by British literature. In his 2001 novel Atonement, Ian McEwan presents a story brimming with allusions to other literary works.
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