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GCSE English Literature · key term
A contradiction between someone’s claimed religious principles and their behaviour, especially when religious authority is used to justify mistreating others.
Used by Edexcel and OCR
Paper 2
Revise: Chapters 5 to 10: LowoodThe timing creates irony: his own family displays precisely the expensive appearance he condemns in poor pupils. This is religious hypocrisy, not evidence that all religion in the novel is cruel.
Paper 1
Claiming to uphold religious principles while behaving in ways that contradict them.
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