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GCSE English Literature · key term
The ability to understand or share another person’s feelings.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
The ability to understand another person’s feelings or experience.
Revise: Estella“Understand” marks a movement towards empathy: Estella can now recognise feelings she previously dismissed.
Understanding and imaginatively sharing another person’s feelings or experiences.
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Paper 2
Revise: EstellaBoth readings recognise her greater empathy. Dickens presents change as possible, but her suffering remains a serious cost, not a deserved punishment.
Paper 1
The capacity to recognise and understand another person’s feelings or situation.
The ability to understand and share another person’s feelings.
Component 2
Understanding another person’s feelings or experiences by imagining their perspective.
Revise: ScroogeThis can make his change seem partly motivated by self-preservation. However, his tears, regret over the carol singer and concern for Tiny Tim occur before that revelation. These moments support the argument that empathy is already developing, with fear making action urgent rather than creating compassion from nothing.
