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GCSE English Literature · key term
Treating a person as an object to use, rather than recognising their feelings, rights and independent choices.
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Treating a person as an object or possession rather than as an independent individual.
Treating a person as an object to possess, display or use rather than as an individual with feelings and choices.
Treating a person as an object to be used rather than recognising their feelings, choices and humanity.
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Treating someone as an object to use or possess rather than as a person with independent feelings and rights.
Treating a person as an object to possess or use rather than as an individual with feelings and choices.
Paper 1, Paper 2
The treatment of a person as an object or possession rather than as an independent individual.
Treating a person as an object or possession rather than as an independent individual.
Paper 1
Treating someone as an object, resource or possession rather than recognising their full humanity and independent wishes.
Revise: GenderThe Inspector condemns his treatment of her as “an animal, a thing, not a person” in Act Three. This objectification connects sexual exploitation with the earlier reduction of women to cheap labour.
Treating a person as an object rather than recognising their humanity and independent feelings.
Component 1, Component 2
Treating a person as an object to be used rather than as someone with independent feelings and choices.
Revise: Cousin KateThe noun ‘thing’ denies her individuality, showing how communal judgement repeats the lord’s objectification of her. In Victorian society, sex outside marriage could destroy a woman’s reputation while a man escaped comparable condemnation. However, the speaker’s question, ‘Now which of us has tenderer heart?’, challenges the assumption that married Kate is morally superior.
Treating a person as an object for someone else’s use rather than recognising their feelings, choices and humanity.
Treating a person as an object for someone else’s use rather than as an individual with feelings, needs and choices.
Treating a person as an object to be possessed, displayed or used, rather than recognising their feelings and independent will.
