Keywords Flashcards

(11 cards)

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Physiognomy

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The idea that how someone looks is reflective of their inner self

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Fin-de-Siècle Fears (End of the Century Anxiety)

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fear that modern science was leading to moral and biological decline and the eroding of civilisation

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Victorian hypocrisy

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That how Victorian people seemed in public is not how they act in private

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4
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Duality

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That mankind has two sides
~Jekyll “man is not one but truly two”

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Facade

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That what one portrays isn’t reality / a mask

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6
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bifurcation

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Division of something into two parts

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7
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ambivalence

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Simultaneous conflicting thoughts and emotions towards a persons inner or thing

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8
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Janus-faced

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Directly contrasting / completely opposite sides

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9
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moral dissonance

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When someone’s actions conflicts with their morals

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10
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blasphemous experimentation

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Playing God

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11
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depravity

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Corruption of morals

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