the unrealistic belief in or pursuit of perfection.
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Meritocracy
a system, organisation or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of power depending on their abilities and status.
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The Jazz Age
the Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity.
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The Lost Generation
a group of writers, poets, and musicians in Paris during the 1920s, who used themes such as disillusionment, loss of identity and tradition in the post- World War 1 society.
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Decadence
moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.
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Conspicuous consumption
the purchase of goods or services for the specific purpose of displaying one's wealth.
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Cynical
believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.
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Motif
an important and usually repeating idea or theme in a work of art.
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Feminist literary criticism
looks at literature assuming its production from a male-dominated perspective.
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Marxist literary criticism
is an approach to diagnosing political and social problems in terms of the struggles between members of different socio-economic classes.
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Psychoanalytic criticism
A form of literary interpretation that employs the terms of psychoanalysis (the unconscious, repression, the Oedipus complex, etc.
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Superego
the superego is the part of personality concerned with keeping to moral norms.
Morality
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Ego
it’s what the person is aware of when they think about themselves, and is what they usually try to project toward others.
Reality
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Id
a part of the unconscious that contains all the urges and impulses.
Instincts
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
a system, organisation or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of power depending on their abilities and status.
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Meritocracy
Card 3
Front
the Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity.
Back
Card 4
Front
a group of writers, poets, and musicians in Paris during the 1920s, who used themes such as disillusionment, loss of identity and tradition in the post- World War 1 society.
Back
Card 5
Front
moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.
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