The History Boys Bennett’s setting is a northern grammar school and his focus is on the varied methods of training post A-level students for life. The headmaster‚ obsessed with league-tables and results‚ wants them all to be Oxbridge candidates. To this end‚ he engages a young historian‚ Irwin‚ who knows that the key to exam success lies in singularity and that "the wrong end of the stick is the right one". In the opposite camp is the gentle English master‚ Mr Hector‚ who argues that exams are
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The History Boys is a play by Alan Bennett that talks about 8 English boys in the 1980s‚ originally having their high school life happily but the situation changes when the new teacher Irwin arrived and broadened their horizons. They start to have struggles‚ confusion and realize the limitations put on them in the aspects of education‚ sexuality‚ morale and initiation during the time they are preparing for their A level exam. At last‚ most of them have a successful life under the elite education
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Austin Williams Film and Literature Austin Williams Film and Literature The History Boys: Literature Response The history boys is a short novel about a bunch of schoolboys who are in the midst of an English class where they are entwined in a discussion about the unruly topics going on in their life and their balance of school along with it. The discussions that take place range from English to French in language and sex‚ sports‚ school‚ religion‚ holocaust‚ politics‚ and art in topics
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How does Bennet use dramatic comedy to offer criticism of contemporary attitudes to education in The History Boys? In this essay I am going to explain how Alan Bennet uses dramatic comedy to criticise the contemporary attitudes towards education in the History Boys. The contemporary attitudes that are criticised are Utilitarianism‚ Humanism and Pragmatism. He does this by using a range of satirical devices. Satire is the use of humour‚ irony‚ exaggeration‚ or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s
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http://rosalinetranslator.multiply.com/journal/item/5/Analysis-of-the-Characters-In-the-History-Boys-written-by-Alan-Bennett?&show_interstitial=1&u=%2Fjournal%2Fitem Analysis of the Characters In the History Boys written by Alan Bennett Jan 17‚ ’09 5:55 AM for everyone Mr. Hector or Douglas He is a round character since psychological aspect is the most obvious thing wherever and wherever he is. Mr. Hector is a sixtysomething eccentric and poetry-loving teacher who inspires his students with the glory
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Quotes Headmaster: Why are you dressed as a milk man? - Shows lack of understanding for the boys who are in a working class Headmaster: There Clever but they lack Crass. Ms. Lintot They know there stuff. But they Lack Flare. - Hector: All Knowledge is useful even if it doesnt serve the slightest need Hector: Its the hot Ticket - Happyness Headmaster: I thought of going. But this was in the 50s. Change was in the air. I was a Geographer. I went to...... Headmaster:
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How does Alan Bennett present education in The History Boys? In Alan Bennett’s play‚ The History Boys‚ education is a presented as prominent yet ambiguous theme. Each character presents a distinguishing view of education‚ perhaps reflecting Bennett’s experiences with education as a whole. Within the very first page‚ Hector’s impression of education is set‚ wherein he refers to his subject as “useless knowledge” and “A Waste of Time”. This immediately suggests to the reader Hector’s general apathy
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Explore the theme of outsiders in act one of The History Boys The theme of outsiders is prominent and reoccurring throughout act one of Alan Bennetts play The History Boys. Bennett’s language choices and dramatic techniques help the reader to understand the theme more comprehensively. Bennett projects the theme of outsiders through characters such as Posner‚ the head teacher‚ Irwin‚ Mrs Lintott and Scripps. Bennett also carefully chooses scenes in which to display the theme of outsiders. This essay
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History Boys Discuss the dramatic function of 3 separate comedy scenes in The History Boys. In Alan Bennetts play‚ The History Boys‚ dramatic functions need to used in order to be able to bring out the personalities of character and to bring the story forward‚ as in a play you can not describe as you can in a novel. One scene in The History Boys where Alan Bennett uses comedy is when during a general studies lesson with Hector he allows the boys to act‚ in French‚ as though they were in a
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The boy that I felt the most sympathy for in The History Boys would have to be Posner. The portrayal of his character compared to that of the other boys is entirely different. Throughout the play‚ Posner is shown to be an outsider; "too young" to understand most things‚ and even to be included in Hector’s inappropriate behaviour. It is evident from the start that Posner has feelings towards Dakin‚ however Dakin’s behaviour towards Posner is far from romantic‚ hence we can sense that he doesn’t return
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