“Writing the wrongs and writing the rights”: scriptotherapy in Ian McEwan’s Atonement

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article examines how Briony, the central protagonist of Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement comes to terms with her guilt for the wrong she had done as a 13-year-old. Her guilt turns into a traumatic memory which she attempts to overcome by adopting the therapeutic exercise of writing, i.e. scriptotherapy.