English Literature A-Level
Hypocrisy of 'Civilised' Society
What Hypocrisy of 'Civilised' Society means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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An unreliable, naive narrator exposes the moral bankruptcy of 'civilised' society and its external hypocrisy in the Southern society depicted.
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