「筋書き」を書くこと

BRIONY: Perhaps I should have written Leon a story. If you write a story, you only have to say the word ‘castle’ and you can see the towers and the woods and the village below... But in a play it' s...it all depends on other people. (Atonement, script)

　そして彼女が他ならぬその「物語」を「書いた」ことにより、他者たちのほうがその物語に翻弄され、螺旋状に悲劇が展開してゆく。