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GCSE English Literature · key term
Separation from a person’s homeland, especially when returning is impossible or unsafe.
Used by AQA and Edexcel
Paper 1, Paper 2
Being forced to live away from one's own country.
Revise: The De LaceysThe De Laceys are a French family living in exile in a cottage in Germany. The household consists of the elderly, blind father, De Lacey, and his children, Felix and Agatha. Safie, who loves Felix, later joins them.
Write about Rumens’s imagined speaker, linking her experience to exile and belonging.
Build a comparative argument about belonging, memory or exile rather than listing poetic techniques.
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Paper 2
Forced absence from a person’s home country.
Revise: The De LaceysThe De Laceys are a French family living in exile in a cottage in Germany: the blind father, old De Lacey, his son Felix and his daughter Agatha. Safie, the woman Felix loves, later joins them. They become central to the creature’s understanding of humanity, although they do not know that he is watching them.
Living away from one's homeland because returning is forbidden, dangerous or otherwise impossible.
Separation from one’s homeland, often enforced by danger, political circumstances or an inability to return.
