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GCSE English Literature · key term
The condition of being under another person's control and required to serve them.
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Paper 1
A condition of being required to serve another person, with limited or no freedom.
The condition of being subject to a master and required to work for them, without freedom to leave.
A condition of being subject to a master and required to serve them.
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Paper 1
The condition of being required to serve a master rather than being free to direct one’s own life.
The condition of being required to serve another person, especially when the servant cannot freely leave.
Component 2
Service or subjection to another person’s authority; Jane uses the word when imagining a different form of employment.
Revise: Chapters 5 to 10: LowoodYet her appeal ends with a more limited request: “grant me at least a new servitude!” The movement from “liberty” to “servitude” reveals the gap between her aspirations and her practical opportunities as a young woman without independent wealth.
