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GCSE English Literature · key term
The belief that events or suffering cannot be changed, so attempts to improve them are pointless.
Used by AQA, Edexcel and OCR
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The belief that events are determined by forces beyond human control.
The belief that events or suffering cannot be changed, so attempts to improve matters are pointless.
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The belief that suffering or events cannot be changed by human effort, encouraging acceptance rather than action.
Revise: Benjamin and CloverOrwell allows readers to distinguish clear-sighted distrust from disabling fatalism.
Paper 1
Revise: Benjamin and CloverBenjamin’s fatalism may help preserve the very conditions he condemns. Being proved right is not the same as having helped anyone.
The belief that an outcome is inevitable and that attempts to change it will be ineffective.
