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GCSE English Literature · key term
The catastrophic end of the world or existing order, often understood in religious terms as a time of divine judgement.
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A vision of overwhelming destruction or the end of the world, often associated with divine judgement.
Revise: Religion and faithThe curate declares, “The great and terrible day of the Lord!” His biblical language turns the invasion into an apocalypse, a moment of final divine judgement. The exclamation conveys terror and certainty simultaneously: he seems certain about the meaning of an event he cannot understand.
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The catastrophic end of the world or of an existing order. The curate interprets the Martian invasion through religious ideas about the end of the world.
The curate asks what sins have caused the disaster and compares it to the biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. His allusions interpret the invasion as divine punishment and the beginning of the apocalypse. These ideas connect to late nineteenth-century fears of catastrophe and the ending of an age.
