English Literature A-Level
Societal Conditioning and Education
What Societal Conditioning and Education means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Societal Conditioning and Education
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The 'voices of [his] accursed human education' demanding the speaker kill the snake, set against his innate reverence for the majestic, 'earth-golden' creature.
Topics that use Societal Conditioning and Education
- 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)
Related terms
- Aesthetic Distance
- Alienation
- Alienation and isolation
- Apathy and Indifference
- Art versus Reality
- Care and responsibility
- Child labour and lost innocence
- Childhood innocence
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