English Literature A-Level
Apathy and Indifference
What Apathy and Indifference means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Apathy and Indifference
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The human lack of concern towards the suffering of others, shown by contrasting Icarus's drowning with the continuation of spring and agricultural labour.
Topics that use Apathy and Indifference
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Post-1900 – The Modernist Period – The Great Modern Poets, editor Michael Schmidt (Quercus, 2014) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Aesthetic Distance
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- Alienation and isolation
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- Child labour and lost innocence
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