English Literature A-Level
Societal collapse and anarchy
What Societal collapse and anarchy means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The psychological and sociological breakdown of ordinary life, termed 'the crisis', observed from the confined perspective of an unnamed narrator's ground-floor flat.
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