Social class
What Social class means in English Literature GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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A key theme of the novel, alongside female autonomy, moral integrity, passionate love versus spiritual restraint, and Victorian institutional hypocrisy.
A contextual factor about 19th-century life that can be related to the novel where this illuminates the task.
Topics that use Social class
- The 19th-century novel (AQA GCSE)
- Component 2: 19th-century Novel and Poetry since 1789 - Set Texts: 19th-century novel (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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