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GCSE English Literature · key term
Claiming beliefs or moral standards that one’s own behaviour contradicts.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
A contrast between professed beliefs and behaviour, such as preaching compassion while treating another person cruelly.
Revise: Mercy, justice and the lawShakespeare allows the argument to challenge Christian hypocrisy without making its violent conclusion acceptable.
The practice of claiming to hold moral beliefs or standards that one’s behaviour contradicts.
Connect Lowood’s physical conditions to its power structure: explain how Brocklehurst justifies deprivation and how his family exposes his hypocrisy.
Link a character’s claims to their actions: Brocklehurst’s preaching about plain clothing becomes evidence of hypocrisy when his richly dressed family enters.
Part (b): distinguish Brocklehurst’s hypocrisy from St John’s sincere but controlling devotion. Explain how Jane separates belief in God from obedience to religious authority.
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Pretending to hold beliefs or moral standards that one’s behaviour contradicts.
Claiming moral standards that one’s own behaviour does not consistently follow.
The contrast between professed principles and actual behaviour, such as demanding self-denial from others while allowing luxury within one’s own family.
Behaviour in which someone claims to uphold moral standards that their own actions contradict.
Claiming to possess moral or religious standards that one’s own behaviour contradicts.
A contradiction between a person’s claimed moral standards and their behaviour.
Claiming to uphold standards or beliefs that one’s own behaviour contradicts.
A difference between claimed moral standards and actual behaviour.
Claiming to uphold moral standards while behaving in ways that contradict them.
Paper 1, Paper 2
Claiming moral standards that one’s own behaviour does not consistently follow.
A gap between the moral standards someone professes and their actual behaviour.
A contradiction between someone’s claimed moral standards and their actual behaviour.
Behaviour that contradicts the moral standards a person claims to uphold.
Claiming to uphold moral or religious principles while behaving in ways that contradict them.
Paper 1, Paper 2
Claiming to uphold moral standards while acting in ways that contradict them.
Revise: Mrs BirlingPriestley exposes the hypocrisy of charitable authority that claims to help but allows prejudice to override compassion. The episode also supports a broader argument for reliable welfare provision rather than leaving vulnerable people dependent on powerful individuals’ approval.
A contrast between what someone claims to believe and how they actually behave.
Claiming to uphold moral standards which your own behaviour does not consistently meet.
Claiming moral standards or beliefs that one’s behaviour contradicts.
A contradiction between someone’s professed principles and their behaviour. Brocklehurst demands humility from poor girls while accepting luxury for his own family.
Claiming to uphold moral standards that one’s own behaviour contradicts.
Component 1, Component 2
A gap between someone's professed moral principles and their behaviour.
A contradiction between someone’s claimed principles and their behaviour, such as claiming to help vulnerable people while refusing compassion to someone in need.
A contrast between what a person claims to believe and how that person behaves.
Claiming to uphold moral standards while behaving in ways that contradict them.
Claiming to hold moral beliefs or standards that one’s own behaviour contradicts.
Claiming to uphold beliefs or moral standards that one’s own behaviour contradicts.
Claiming moral standards or beliefs that one’s behaviour does not genuinely follow.
Behaviour that conceals hostile or dishonest intentions beneath an appearance of goodness.
A contradiction between professed beliefs and behaviour, such as preaching compassion while humiliating an opponent.
Claiming moral standards or beliefs that one’s own behaviour contradicts.
Pretending to hold moral standards that one’s own behaviour contradicts.
