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GCSE English Literature · key term
Punishment understood as a consequence of wrongdoing. Godfrey sees his childless home as possible punishment for abandoning Eppie.
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Paper 2
Punishment or suffering understood as a consequence of wrongdoing. Godfrey sees his childless home as retribution for abandoning Eppie.
Punishment understood as deserved repayment for wrongdoing.
Integrate context into your argument. Godfrey’s fear of losing his inheritance explains his concealment; Christian ideas of duty and retribution help explain how characters understand its consequences.
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Component 2
Revise: Chapters 16 to 18: sixteen years laterGodfrey’s guilty conscience also makes his childless home seem like “a retribution”, as the narrator explains in Chapter 17. Retribution means punishment for wrongdoing: Godfrey interprets his disappointment as a consequence of abandoning Eppie. This reveals how his concealed past shapes his experience of the present.
Punishment understood as deserved because of an earlier wrongdoing.
