Week 4: Atonement

The first day of the week I visited the British Library. It was fascinating experience because I got to see the different religious texts and documents such as poems,  all in one place. 

 I looked at the similarities between Magna Carta and other documents in the British Library. Interestingly, I noticed many similarities between the sacred texts and Magna Carta such as bringing justice, and protecting the rights of people.     

The second day was in the Imperial War Museum.This is one of the shelters that I saw in the Museum. It is called the Anderson shelter that protected people from air raids. It must have been difficult for Robbie to hide in these small shelters. There were barley any space for a group of people to hide. Usually people with better education get better protection, but Robbie did not have good education therefore he struggled.       

This is another shelter, a one person shelter that offered protection for anyone in the battle field.

   

On the third day I went to Florence Nightingale Museum. Florence was neat and very organized person. She also had demanding and controlling  personality. Similarly, Mcewan in the book Atonement describes Briony saying"Briony's was the only tidy upstairs room in the house"(Chapter 1),  It shows how Florence and Briony are both neat and organized.

    

 This is an image of a nurse that caught my attention. The Nightingale model of nursing was, "trainees had to be sober, honest, punctual, quiet and orderly, clean and neat." Briony was a nurse as well and she had to follow that model of nursing. This model matches many of the qualities that Briony possessed such as her controlling nature and neatness. That shows that Briony was a great nurse. 

This is another image of a nurse taking care of a patient that I liked. 

This is a painting of the Nightingale sisters. Many of them came from an upper-class background just like Briony. As seen in the painting they are brides for gentlemen because upper class woman were expected to be pretty. Many of them did not have good education such as Florence and Briony.