History Boys (random quotes and notes) Essay

Quotes master key Why are you dressed as a milk composition? Shows lack of understanding for the boys who are in a working classHeadmaster There Clever scarce they lack Crass. Ms. Lintot They receive in that respect stuff. But they Lack Flare. boss around All K like a shotledge is effectual even if it doesnt serve the slightest need boss around Its the hot Ticket HappynessHeadmaster I thought of going. But this was in the 50s. Change was in the air. I was a Geographer. I went toHeadmaster Odity- Rudge.Posner Ill Go sir bully Nevermind.Irwin Has some(prenominal) one been to Rome, Venince.So wherefore botherIrwin I dont chicane, I wold go to newcastle, save the money and be content.Irwin Whats truth got to do with it.Ms. Lintot Cunt Strunct, coalesce adjective.Hector At least im doing better than felix.Posner Although he laughs the laughs on me.Rudge What delight must you either constituteDakin Lititure is ab break by means of loosers.GobitsPass the parcel thats all so metimes you can do. Take it feel. Not for me non for you.HeadmasterThis Is no time for poetryHeadmaster Are you going to tell your married woman.Posner is the further one who attends his lesson after four.Posner is the only one who goes up to mr hector when he is crying.Dakin Is that the subjunctive or theIt will functionWho says I want it to passWhy dont you all just tell the truth.Ms. Lintot History is a commetary on the various and continuing incapabilities of menRudge Its just one fucking affaire after some other. If they like me and they take me then theyll take me beca expend im dull and customary like everybody else.Irwin Dont you ever want to go stomach? Im non canny enough, im not anything enough really.Hector What I didnt want was to turn out boys who would claim In later life to have a duncish love of lit.Has a boy ever made you unhappy? They use to do. See it as an Inoculation, Rather. Briefly painful, but providing immunity for however enormous it takes. Give n the occasional Booster, Another Face, another reminder of the pain, It can stopping point you half a life time. Love. Who could love me? Do they know? They know everthing? Dont touch him. Hell think your a salutary.Dakin How come theres such a difference between the way you teach and the way you live?Dakin Hectors a Joke- Irwin No, He isnt, you see?Dakin, whats the difference between Mr. Hector touching us up on the bike, and your purport up fiona.Posmer Im not happy, but im not unhappy close it.Skrips No. Love Apart, It is the only grooming charge having.Id been on picnicground duty, so I motto him on what must have been his first morning Here, Scripps takes on the fibre of a narratorIRWIN He was a well(p) man but I do not think there is time for his potpourri of teaching any more(prenominal). SCRIPPS No. Love apart it is the only kind of education worth having.Timms seems to suddenly step outside of time and sayThe impinging never hurt. It was a joke. None of us care d. We lapped it up. This sudden switch into the sometime(prenominal) tense comes as a surprise, and may prompt the reference to curiosity whether Timms is addressing them directly, from some future time in which he is looking back at the events universe plyed out.The intrusion of future knowledge into the additive narrative of the receive continues to cast a shadow over events, and becomes darker as the story progresses. At the start of Act 2 for example, we see another flash-forward, this time by about five years. Irwin is in his wheelchair erst more, which tells us that his accident will be soon, and not in the more distant future as we may have first thought, change magnitude the sense of urgency and inevitability. In this future time, Irwin meets one of the students, identified only, to dismay with, as Man. This label also expresses the passing of time by its contrast to boy, the term used in the title of the play and throughout to describe the students. This Man is P osner,perhaps the most fragile of the boys, who is now in therapy and desperately clinging to his past. He says of university All the effort went into turnting there and then I had nothing left.While Irwins constituent is foreshadowed throughout, the fate of Hector comes as a tragic surprise. It is important to consider why it is Mrs Lintott who takes this role of retrospective narrator. Like Scripps, she has been an outsider, describing her separation from the phallic environment of the play in her metaphor They kick their particular stone along the bridle-path and I watch. given them a deeper perception of time and its patterns.The total timescale of events expound within The History Boys can therefore be seen to encompass about twenty years, but Bennett incorporates a much wider period by exhibit the historical and literary influences do working upon the characters. The classroom setting allows Bennett to use intertextuality freely to achieve this. This technique involves t he reference of other, previously written texts within the play.doubting Thomas hardys Drummer Hodge, for example, is used to symbolise the connection between Hector and Posner Posner How old was he?Hector If he was a drummer, he would be a young soldier, younger than you probably.Posner No. Hardy.Hector Oh, how old was Hardy? When he wrote this, about sixty. My age, I suppose This prompts a moving countersign about loneliness and isolation. Hector can relate to the loneliness of the poem, universe around the same age as Hardy was when he wrote it, and feeling a sense of unfulfilled ambition, of a life not lived. For Posner, a teenager dealing with his homo versedity in a school full of heterosexual boys, the loneliness of Drummer Hodge, a boy not much sometime(a) than himself, is deeply affecting.Are seeing a play from the early twenty-first century, set in the 1980s, using a poem from the 1960s describing 1914.messages of the play that we can envision from times beyond our ow n lives through the literature left scattered through the decades and centuries, in what Hector describes as a game of pass it on. Rudges ironic rendition ofIts a Sin by the Pet Shop Boys (1987) also small talks on the inevitable presence and role of sexuality and sin in education.http//yr13practise.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/the- write up-boys/The History Boys therefore moves far beyond the initially confining time and space in which it is set to bind together influences from crossways the 20th century and before. This goes some way to explain the title itself the boys, through their teachers and education, are moving into their future with history having become a implicit in(p) part of their characters, personalities and lives. As the fateful accident is set in motion, Scripps notesAnd here, history rattled over the pointsTo continue this train metaphor, Alan Bennett has not only presented the alternate station of the boys transition from school to university, but the long line s of railway that run backwards and forwards beyond it.my education at school was restrain to what I needed to pass exams.WomenThe representation of women is seen through the very few female characters in the play. -Bennett presents marriage as a confinement of loving experience vs being central to a happy ending. -Both Hectors unexpected wife and the Mrs. Headmaster are absent from stage. -Glimpses of this marrige are represented as unhappy.-Both wifes encourage out at the charity shop-Hector clames that his wife would not be intrested in his fiddling of boys on the pillion is Dorothys surmise that Mrs Hector had miscellanea of known all along about her conserve and that A husband in a low light, thats what they want, these supposedly unsuspecting wives, the mans lukewarm attentions, just what they married them for. So, far from submissive, Hectors wife has, arguably, some control in her marriage.Fionas Relationship with Dakin Bennet explores the sexual stereyotype that wome n are used as objectsrather This is epitomized by Dakins recital that Im hoping one of the times might be on the study floor its like the Headmaster says one should have targets Dakin accentuates the relationship between sex and education as he notes the wideness of measurable targets in pursuing Fiona. comic upheaval of youth dominating age which again emphasises Fionas role in heightening male dominance.-Dakin compares sexual advances with Fiona and the advances of the British soldiers in the war. Fiona is depicted as his Western previous, a territory to be taken, and, more alarming, the enemy, the Hun her body is ground to be -depicts Fionas subservience and reaffirms her character as elevating male sexual action -degrades womens role in society to be solely cerebrate around pleasing men.Mrs.Lintott She controversially comments on history as being a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men condemns the commanding Dakin as cunt-struck. She harnesses the derogatory male language of female private separate to derogate men, calling the Headmaster twat -to go further experience the same proscribed path, a condescending cunt Bennett uses the character of Mrs Lintott to scupper the Headmasters idiocy in the first scene in which she appears on stage. He believes the boys need to Think charm. Think Polish. However, Dorothys ironic response compares his idea of education to a sprig of parsley ,and subversively the Headmasters appearance on stage becomes the centre of the audiences mockery. however, Dorothy is, like Scripps, given a role as wise and perspicacious onlooker and observer of events over time she satirically comments on society, stating they are Pillars of a community that no longer has much use for pillars. further criticise masculine ineptitude as she demonstrates the unfulfilled event of the boys future as a result of the masculine approach to teaching. The comment that Dakin likes money,ironically denotes the valu e of an education focused solely on achieving targets. -self-absorbed demeanour of the male characters-However, Bennett excludes Mrs Lintott from the educational debate andpresents her without any viewpoint on it -male ascendant society that men are always in positions of influence and for a man to be inferior to a woman is inconceivable. The headmaster is implicated with superficial targets,Hector believesall knowledge is precious and Irwin is chiefly concerned with originality and pragmatical uses of it.Who are the History Boys? Dakin The Stud Scripps The Conscience Posner The Lover/Poet Rudge The Working colleague Akhtar The Ethnic Minority Crowther The Lip Timms The clique Clown Lockwood The Soldier histrionicss of Class Headmasters (BA Hull) snobbery Theyre clever but theyre crassCulture they can get from Hector, History they can get from you They need polish. EdgeI want to see us up thereRepresentations of Teaching Styles Mr Hector (General Studies) Life Less ons Mrs Dorothy Lintott (History) Subject teaching Mr Irwin (Oxbridge) mental test boosters The Head Master ResultsAll knowledge is precious, whether or not it serves the slightest mankind use AE Houseman We wont be examined on that, Sir triumph Question What is education for?Teaching Style Irwin Modern classroom of crosspatch and plastic, bare walls, functional Id go to Newcastle and be happy Fox, UK15. Intertextuality as Commentary Noel Cowards Brief Encounter Thank you for approaching back to me Drummer Hodge Thomas Hardy A saddish life. Though not unknownUnkissed. Unrejoicing. Unconfessed. UnembracedRepresentation of Gender Historys a commentary on the continuing incapabilities of men (Lintott) Five centuries of masculine ineptitude cf The speak randomness of things (Lintott) Question How are the masculine and feminine represented in The History Boys18. Schools as sexual sites Fisher et al Sites of sexual opportunity, accent and competition Reinforced by po pular culture, peer support ascendence of heteronormativity Male environments homoeroticism of The History Boys19. Representation of sexual practice 1 Representation of Male Adult Sexuality The transmission of knowledge is itself an erotic act (Hector) This is a school and it isnt normal (The Headmaster) A grope is a grope (Lintott)20. Representation of Sexuality 2 Representation of Male teenaged Awakening Dakins conquest Scripps faith Posners in-love21. Representation of Sexuality 3 Dakins proposition of Irwin Irwins response Question What do you think of the representation of male (homo)sexuality in The History Boys?22. Learning Styles Mr. Hectors stuffs not meant for the exams. Its to make us more rounded human beings (Timms) Weve got the most important exam in our livesWere just sat here reading literature (Lockwood) Hector produces results but unpredictable and unquantiableTheres inspiration, certainly, but how do I quantify that? (The Headmaster) Lying wor ks (Dakin to Irwin) He was a good man. But I dont think theres time for his kind of teaching anymore (Irwin on Hector) One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them (Lintott)Bennetts presentation of marriageEducationIntetextuallityAnalysis of women shovinism