Complicity: A character's or society's shared responsibility in producing harmful outcomes, even without direct action.
How to apply it: Analyze how a work implicates characters—or the reader—in the conditions that produce suffering or injustice.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Longer Fiction or Drama II
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