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GCSE English Literature · key term
French for ‘end of the century’; in late nineteenth-century cultural discussion, it was associated with anxiety about exhaustion, decline and the future of civilisation.
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Paper 1
A French expression meaning ‘end of the century’, associated with late nineteenth-century anxieties about decline, exhaustion and the future of civilisation.
French for ‘end of the century’; associated with the late nineteenth-century mood of anxiety about decline, exhaustion and the possible decay of civilisation.
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Component 2
French for ‘end of century’; in literature, usually the late nineteenth century and its mixture of hopes for renewal and fears of decline, decadence or catastrophe.
Revise: ContextThese concerns connect with the fin de siècle, or end of the century. Alongside hopes for progress, the 1880s and 1890s contained fears of decadence, degeneration and catastrophe. Wells’s Martians embody that tension: they possess extraordinary intelligence but lack compassion.
French for ‘end of century’; often used for the late nineteenth-century cultural atmosphere of uncertainty, pessimism and hopes for renewal.
A French expression meaning ‘end of century’, commonly used for the late nineteenth century and its mixture of hopes for renewal and fears of cultural decline.
