AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
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GCSE English Literature · key term
Mixed or conflicting feelings towards someone or something.
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Paper 2
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The coexistence of conflicting feelings towards something, such as attraction and dislike.
Revise: Love's DogThe speaker can enjoy love’s tenderness and excitement while resenting its selfishness, damage and power to diminish someone. This coexistence of opposing feelings is ambivalence. The poem’s humour does not remove its darker implications: delightful and harmful experiences repeatedly sit beside one another.
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Having mixed or conflicting feelings about someone or something.
Having mixed or conflicting feelings about someone or something, such as affection for a parent alongside resentment of their rules.
Having mixed or conflicting feelings about something.
The experience of having conflicting feelings about something, such as loving a family while also feeling restricted by it.
The experience of conflicting feelings or attitudes towards something. Miss Lucy’s care for the students conflicts with her participation in Hailsham’s concealment of their futures.
The presence of mixed or conflicting feelings towards someone or something.