ROLES ARE OFTEN MARGINALISED AND TOKENISTIC IN DRAMATIC COMEDY.’ TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU BELIEVE THIS TO BE THE CASE IN ALAN BENNETT’S THE HISTORY BOYS? Dramatic comedy often sees the woman take on a role of insignificance. They become the prey‚ the desired possession and are not seen as equal beings to male characters. This has been apparent throughout history from the very birth of comedy. Plautus for example developed his comedy from the Greek’s new comedy and so also inherited a bias against woman
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Epilogue For The Outsiders “How do you feel Johnny‚ your first sunset up close and personal?” I asked him “Its amazing Dad! I love it.” We continued staring into the radiant beams of the sun until Johnny popped the question I was dreading all those years. “Dad?” “Yes son?” I answered‚ knowing what he was going to ask. “How did I get my name?” I took a long sigh. “I had a friend when I was a bit older than you‚ his name was Johnny‚ an amazing friend to have who didn’t deserve to leave my
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occur at all but‚ the sad truth is that racism‚ unfortunately‚ happens on a daily basis. Racism occurs both on a visible and nonvisible level and‚ affects the way children develop physically and emotionally. Whist reading Richard Wright’s book Black Boy one goes through an emotional story about a real child who is impacted and affected dramatically by racism and discrimination. These tragic experiences that Richard faces involving racism shapes and develops him from childhood to adolescence. One can
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In Sophocles’ Antigone‚ the audience experiences a catharsis wherein sympathy and fear is evoked for Creon‚ a tragic hero whose Kingship was spoilt by corruption‚ human fallibility and pride. Throughout the play‚ Creon has demonstrated how even rulers with a strong moral stance can still fail in their attempts to do good‚ unfortunately due to exceeding the limits of their humanity. To begin‚ the tragedy that befalls Creon as a man devoted to his country and to his religion seems to feel undeserved
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The Outsiders Essay – Describe an interesting theme from a text you have studied. Explain why this theme is interesting. In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton an important theme is family and friendship. This theme is interesting because it shows us how when you’re family you come together to look after each other no matter what. The theme of friendship is also interesting because when your friends you support each other through everything and anything no matter what the consequences are
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Explore the theme of rebellion in the first three acts of The Tempest Rebellion is definitely an important theme throughout the play. Every character has committed an act of rebellion at some point in The Tempest. The subject of rebellion was very important to the audience at the time because of the risk of rebellion at the time against James I‚ who was the monarch. There is a lot of rebelling against masters‚ as shown by both Ariel and Caliban. In act 1 scene 2‚ Ariel asks Prospero for his
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American History X Hate is part of the human condition. From our very beginning of our being comes our need to judge and be apprehensive toward people that are strange to us. In the classic film "American History X"‚ directed by Tony Kaye‚ two brothers are raised in a white supremacist world of racial hatred‚ self- pity‚ and social ignorance. It is only through the hard work and concern of a couple people that saved them. The movie opens with a scene from the ocean‚ forecasting a recurrent theme in the
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Bennett explores the fine line between wisdom and foolishness in ‘The History Boys’. Discuss with reference to this comedic drama. The fine line between wisdom and foolery has often been explored and blurred in dramatic comedies throughout the ages. Often‚ in Shakespeare’s plays especially‚ the fool figure turns out to be the wisest figure out of all of the other characters‚ and is used as a way to make a comment on the social context of the time. This theme is present in ‘The History Boys’‚ as Bennett
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It was the first day back at school for a new year. Many of us still longed to be on holiday‚ carefree and careless. It showed on our faces as we grumpily and wearily made our way along the corridors to our House Room. This year our form (11) had a new student. When we walked in we all just looked at him‚ scrutinizing‚ mentally noting anything unusual. There was something about him though‚ but I couldn’t quite see it. Nobody interacted with him at first - the teachers were all around him‚ then he
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boys will be boys Barbara Kantrowitz and Claudia Kalb’s‚ “Boys will be Boys” article‚ explains how after years of research on girls‚ boys must also be put under the microscope‚ in efforts to reach a further understanding of the adolescent male. The two authors start their article by pointing out‚ that boys and girls come from two completely different “planets”. They have two different “crisis points”‚ which are stages of emotional and social development‚ where things can go seriously wrong. Kantrowitz
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