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GCSE English Literature · key term
A lack of knowledge or understanding, which can make a person dependent on someone else’s explanations.
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Paper 2
A lack of knowledge or understanding. It can make someone dependent on other people’s explanations, but does not mean that they lack kindness or practical ability.
Revise: Education and ignoranceEducation therefore connects the novella’s themes of equality, leadership and propaganda: knowledge can help the animals challenge power, while ignorance leaves them dependent on those who control information.
Paper 1
Either question: connect education and the Ragged Schools specifically to Ignorance and Want or Dickens’s treatment of neglected children, rather than adding an unrelated context paragraph.
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A lack of knowledge or understanding. It is not necessarily laziness or a lack of moral judgement.
Paper 1
A lack of knowledge or understanding. Dickens’s boy named Ignorance represents neglected education, while Scrooge also shows ignorance through his refusal to understand poverty.
