History Boys (random quotes and notes) Essay

Quotes headmaster Why are you dressed as a milk man? Shows lack of understanding for the boys who are in a working classHeadmaster There Clever entirely they lack Crass. Ms. Lintot They know on that point stuff. But they Lack Flare. bully except Knowledge is useful even if it doesnt serve the slightest need intimidate Its the blue Ticket HappynessHeadmaster I thought of spillage. But this was in the 50s. pitch was in the air. I was a Geographer. I went toHeadmaster Odity- Rudge.Posner Ill Go sir push around Nevermind.Irwin Has any wiz been to Rome, Venince. So why botherIrwin I dont know, I wold go to newcastle, save the m unrivalledy and be euphoric.Irwin Whats truth got to do with it.Ms. Lintot Cunt Strunct, Compound adjective.Hector At least im doing better than felix.Posner Although he laughs the laughs on me.Rudge What fun must you all entertainDakin Lititure is about loosers.Gobits  shed light on the parcel thats all some whiles you can do. Take it feel. Not for me non for you.HeadmasterThis Is no magazine for poetryHeadmaster Are you going to tell your wife.Posner is the entirely 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 passWho says I indispensableness it to passWhy dont you all just tell the truth.Ms. Lintot archives is a commetary on the various and continuing incapabilities of menRudge Its just one fucking thing after a nonher. If they like me and they usurp me then theyll take me because im dull and ordinary like every consistence else.Irwin Dont you ever want to go back up? Im non sharp enough, im not anything enough really.Hector What I didnt want was to turn out boys who would claim In later bread and butter to provoke a deep love of literature.Has a boy ever do you unhappy? They used to do. See it as an Inoculation, Rather. Briefly painful, but providing resistivity for however long it takes. Given the occasional Booster, Another Face, another admonisher of the pain, It can last you half a life while. Love. Who could love me? Do they know? They know everthing? Dont touch him. Hell cypher your a full.Dakin How sum theres such a difference between the expression you teach and the way you live?Dakin Hectors a Joke- Irwin No, He isnt, you throw?Dakin, whats the difference between Mr. Hector touching us up on the bike, and your feeling up fiona.Posmer Im not happy, but im not unhappy about it.Skrips No. Love Apart, It is the only education worth having.Id been on meetground duty, so I saw him on what must have been his rootage sunup Here, Scripps takes on the share of a narratorIRWIN He was a commodity man but I do not think there is time for his kind of teaching anymore. SCRIPPS No. Love apart it is the only kind of education worth having.Timms seems to abruptly step outside of time and sayThe hitting never hurt. It was a joke. None of us cared. We lapped it up. This sudde n switch into the past tense comes as a surprise, and may locomote the audience to wonder whether Timms is addres viciousnessg them directly, from some future(a) time in which he is looking back at the events being played out.The intrusion of future companionship into the linear narrative of the play continues to cast a backside over events, and perishs darker as the story progresses. At the start of Act 2 for example, we see another flash-forward, this time by about five old age. Irwin is in his wheelchair once more, which tells us that his accident will be soon, and not in the more distant future as we may have first thought, increasing the sense of urgency and inevitability. In this future time, Irwin meets one of the students, identified only, to begin with, as Man. This label also expresses the liberty chit of time through and through its contrast to boy, the term used in the title of the play and throughout to describe the students. This Man is Posner, perhaps the more or less fragile of the boys, who is now in therapy and desperately clinging to his past. He says of university All the childbed went into getting there and then I had nothing left.While Irwins fate is foreshadowed throughout, the fate of Hector comes as a tragic surprise. It is authoritative 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 manful environment of the play in her metaphor They kick their particular match along the street and I watch. given them a deeper perception of time and its patterns.The total timescale of events described within The fib Boys can therefore be seen to encompass about twenty years, but Bennett incorporates a much wider detail by showing the historical and literary influences acting upon the characters. The classroom telescope allows Bennett to use intertextuality freely to achieve this. This technique involves the reference of other, previously scripted texts within the play.Thomas stouts Drummer Hodge, for example, is used to symbolise the continuative 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 discussion about loneliness and isolation. Hector can yoke to the loneliness of the song, being 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 homosexuality in a school full of heterosexual boys, the loneliness of Drummer Hodge, a boy not much older than himself, is deeply affecting.Are seeing a play from the early 21st century, scar in the 1980s, using a poem from the 1960s describing 1914.messages of the play that we can learn from times beyond our confess 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 of Its a Sin by the Pet store Boys (1987) also comments on the inevitable presence and role of sexuality and sin in education.http//yr13practise.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/the- account statement-boys/The narration Boys therefore moves furthest beyond the initially restrictive time and space in which it is set to check together influences from across the 20th century and before. This goes some way to beg off the title itself the boys, through their instructors and education, are moving into their future with history having become a fundamental 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 interchange station of the boys transition from school to university, but the long lines of railway that stret ch backwards and forwards beyond it.my education at school was confined to what I needed to pass exams.WomenThe representation of women is seen through the very few fe phallic characters in the play. -Bennett presents marriage as a confinement of social experience vs being central to a happy ending. -Both Hectors unexpected wife and the Mrs. Headmaster are absent from interpret. -Glimpses of this marrige are represented as unhappy.-Both wifes help out at the charity shop-Hector clames that his wife would not be intrested in his fiddling of boys on the pillion is Dorothys guesswork that Mrs Hector had sort of known all along about her preserve and that A husband in a low light, thats what they want, these purportedly 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 race with Dakin Bennet explores the sexual stereyotype that women are used as objectsrather This is epitomized by Dakins statement that Im hoping one of the times tycoon 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 importance of measurable targets in pursuing Fiona. comic fermentation 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 Front, 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 accomplishment -degrades womens role in society to be solo focused around pleasing men.Mrs.Lintott She controversially comments on history as being a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men condemns the arrogant Dakin as fathead-struck. She harnesses the derogatory male language of womanhoodly private parts to derogate men, calling the Headmaster twat -to go further down the same proscribed path, a condescending cunt Bennett uses the character of Mrs Lintott to display the Headmasters idiocy in the first scene in which she appears on stage. He believes the boys need to cypher charm. Think Polish. However, Dorothys ironic reaction 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 omniscient and perspicacious onlooker and observer of events over time she satirically comments on society, stating they are Pillars of a community that no long-acting has much use for pillars. further criticise masculine unwieldiness as she demonstrates the unfulfilled outcome of the boys future as a result of the masculine approach to teaching. The comment that Dakin likes money,ironically denotes the value of a n education focused solely on achieving targets. -self-absorbed behaviour of the male characters-However, Bennett excludes Mrs Lintott from the educational debate andpresents her without any vantage point on it -male dominant society that men are always in positions of influence and for a man to be inferior to a woman is inconceivable. The headmaster is concerned with superficial targets,Hector believesall knowledge is precious and Irwin is in the main concerned with originality and practical uses of it.Who are the History Boys? Dakin The Stud Scripps The Conscience Posner The buffer/Poet Rudge The Working Lad Akhtar The Ethnic Minority Crowther The Lip Timms The Class fathead Lockwood The Soldier imitations 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 Lessons Mrs D orothy Lintott (History) cogitation teaching Mr Irwin (Oxbridge) Exam boosters The Head Master ResultsAll knowledge is precious, whether or not it serves the slightest human use AE Houseman We wont be examined on that, Sirhappiness Question What is education for?Teaching Style Irwin raw classroom of glass and plastic, bare walls, functional Id go to Newcastle and be happy Fox, UK15. Intertextuality as Commentary Noel Cowards Brief brushing Thank you for coming back to me Drummer Hodge Thomas Hardy A saddish life. though not unappreciatedUnkissed. Unrejoicing. Unconfessed. UnembracedRepresentation of Gender Historys a commentary on the continuing incapabilities of men (Lintott) Five centuries of masculine ineptitude cf The utter randomness of things (Lintott) Question How are the masculine and womanish represented in The History Boys18. Schools as sexual sites Fisher et al Sites of sexual opportunity, tension and competition Reinforced by popular culture, catch supp ort Dominance of heteronormativity Male environments homoeroticism of The History Boys19. Representation of sex activity 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 Adolescent 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 Copernican exam in our livesWere just sat here instruction literature (Lockwood) Hector produces results but unpredictable and unquantiableTheres inspiration, certainly, but how do I quantify that? (The Headmaster) Lying works (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 marriage facts of lifeIntetextuallityAnalysis of women shovinism