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GCSE English Literature · key term
Money or property received from someone after their death.
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Paper 1
Revise: Social classJane insists on dividing the inheritance equally, so that she and each of her three cousins receive £5,000. In Chapter 33, she tells St John that the full fortune “could never be mine in justice, though it might in law.” The contrast between “justice” and “law” distinguishes her sense of fairness from her legal entitlement.
Paper 2
Revise: Chapters 28 to 35: Moor HouseAn earlier family quarrel explains why the Rivers were excluded from the substantial inheritance.
Build each paragraph around an idea about belonging, loss or inheritance, then analyse how Hardi’s choices develop it.
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Receiving possessions, characteristics or traditions from an earlier generation. In Hardi’s poem, it concerns both household objects and connections to home.
Paper 1
Money or property received after someone’s death.
Revise: Chapters 28 to 35: Moor HouseShe insists on dividing the inheritance equally, leaving each cousin and herself with five thousand pounds. She wants to repay those who saved her, free Diana and Mary from dependent employment, and reunite the household. Although the whole fortune is legally hers, she argues for a distribution that fulfils her sense of justice and love.
Component 2
Money or property received after another person’s death.
Revise: Social classTowards the end of the novel, Jane’s inheritance gives her financial security. She shares it with the Rivers family rather than keeping it entirely for herself. This contrasts with John’s possessive use of wealth at Gateshead: money can create connection and generosity instead of exclusion and domination.
