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GCSE English Literature · key term
The shared welfare or good of a community. The narrator’s phrase “commonweal of mankind” extends this idea to humanity as a whole.
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Paper 1
Revise: Human complacency and humilityThe narrator also claims that the invasion “has done much to promote the conception of the commonweal of mankind” (Book Two Chapter 10). “Commonweal” means shared welfare. His perspective has widened from suburban “petty concerns” and rivalry between nations to the interests of humanity as a whole.
Component 2
The shared welfare or good of a community; the narrator’s phrase ‘commonweal of mankind’ extends this concern to humanity as a whole.
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The narrator also suggests that the invasion “has done much to promote the conception of the commonweal of mankind” (Book Two Chapter 10). “Commonweal” means shared welfare. The scale of concern has widened from Woking’s local affairs and national rivalries to humanity as a whole.
