Total originality is that of an oxymoron, simple because “true originality” is not something that can be created. Yet originality is something that can be imitated and stolen. The act of stealing is what generates “true originality”. Artists and every other person who thinks creatively inspires each other to create something revolutionary. Consider Ian McEwan and his novel Atonement; the novel employs what would be a revolutionary form of literary technique for British literature. Because the expression “good artists copy and great artists steal” (Pablo Picasso), resembles the true face of Ian McEwan thanks to his efforts in stealing literary techniques from other authors such as Virginia Woolf, and using these old hashes. Yet stealing is something that all people do, whether they know it or not. To read literary works by other writers, as well as oneself, and then write an essay afterwards; the influence that author has on them causes them to imitate their creative mind. McEwan, despite receiving astonishing reviews for his novel Atonement, shows how artistry resulting from human attributes imitates other novelists and literary artists. The author simply steals from authors like Virginia Woolf, who also steals from other writers like Marcel Proust. William Faulkner and James Joyce, along with Woolf, also steal from each other and also from their predecessors (Matus, as within the novel one experiences how Briony sees and feels her guilt towards Robby for his false accusations in his comparisons Throughout the book, this is present and this is what provides us with the basis for measuring her “level” of atonement. With this in mind, Virgina Woolf relies heavily on interior monologue, adapted with modernist literary techniques. can explore the subjective realm of a character's memories, thoughts and dreams” (Matus, 1), of his characters through the use of subjective narration. This coincides indefinitely with the way in which McEwan develops his protagonist Briony, who she comments is the person who wrote the book and created all the thoughts of her characters, Robbie, Cecilia and herself. A major example of this is the interaction between the three of them in part 3, which was fictional because Briony she was too cowardly to go and confront her. true atonement, however, is reflected upon it in the late 1970s. In an artistic sense, developing the plot of a book to be written around two main writers, current authors McEwan and Briony, creates a unique ideology for literary techniques. While most of the techniques to achieve this have been composed