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GCSE English Literature · key term
A ruler who exercises power cruelly or oppressively.
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Paper 1
A ruler who uses power cruelly and oppressively.
A ruler who exercises power cruelly and oppressively.
A ruler who uses power oppressively or cruelly.
A ruler who exercises power oppressively or cruelly.
Paper 1
A ruler who uses power cruelly and oppressively.
A ruler who exercises power cruelly and oppressively rather than protecting the people.
A ruler who exercises power cruelly and oppressively.
Paper 1, Paper 2
A cruel ruler who uses power to oppress others, often through fear and violence.
Revise: NapoleonNapoleon develops from one of the pigs organising Animalism into a tyrant who controls the farm’s decisions, food and public understanding of events. Orwell does not present this simply as a good leader suddenly becoming bad. Early details already suggest that Napoleon values getting his own way more than collective freedom.
A ruler who uses power oppressively for personal interests rather than the welfare of the country.
A ruler who exercises power cruelly and oppressively. Macbeth's violence leaves his subjects obeying from fear rather than loyalty.
A ruler who uses power cruelly and oppressively.
A ruler who uses power oppressively, especially for personal advantage rather than the welfare of the people.
Component 1
A ruler who exercises power cruelly and oppressively.
Revise: MacbethMurdering defenceless people marks the distance between the soldier who protected Scotland and the tyrant who terrorises it. His violence also creates the personal motive that drives Macduff to seek his death.
Part (b): identify whose judgement you are using. Caliban calling Prospero a tyrant is evidence of Caliban’s perspective, not automatically Shakespeare’s verdict.
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