English Literature A-Level
Universality of the Human Condition
What Universality of the Human Condition means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Universality of the Human Condition
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The idea that apparently different lives, from agricultural and tribal communities to cobble-close families, all share the process of slow dying.
Topics that use Universality of the Human Condition
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Post-1900 – The Movement – The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, editor Philip Larkin with foreword by Andrew Motion (OUP, 1973) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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