How does Bennett make effective use of dramatic methods‚ in pages 34-41‚ to raise pertinent issues in the History Boys? Alan Bennett uses a number of methods throughout the play in order to raise pertinent issues and fully convey his concerns‚ and I believe many of these are present within this extract; varying from his common language and structure techniques to the ever running themes of conflicting pedagogical philosophies‚ sinister pederast undertones and the drive for acceptance at Oxbridge
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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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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 will Gene Doping effect the sports industry? Gene Doping is a different type of gene therapy that has caused a lot of controversy in the past 6-7 years due to the capability of what this method of doping could do. Gene doping therapy was started at Harvard in 1999 and was specifically used to get a substantial rise in the performance of athletes. This is done by genetically modifying cells to enhancing athletic performance. Gene therapy is done by using genes to help treat or stop diseases.
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Reality We Need To Embrace Doping in sports (Performance Enhancing Drugs) has become an issue in all sports of all levels. In the last decade the amount of players who have been caught using performance enhancing drugs has tremendously increased. Doping is considered an artificial aid. An artificial aid allows an athlete to compete at a higher level. However‚ these aids have technically been in use in sports since the Greeks first put on shoes in the Olympics. Doping is another artificial aid
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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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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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Doping in Sports Steroids are a bigger problem now then they’ve ever have been. They’ve always been a problem but they’ve been incognito to the public eye. The New York Times bring up a troubling issue that’s been going on for years and that is the misuse of steroids in professional level sports. The New York Times recently featured an article entitled “Steroids in Sports” Oct 11‚ 2012. In this article the times aims to convince their readers that steroid use is bad if not worse then ever before
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Marquis De Lafayette’s Contributions to France The Marquis de Lafayette‚ sometimes known as the “Hero of Two Worlds”‚ held a powerful political and military influence over the people of revolutionary France (“Marquis De Lafayette”). Lafayette has been credited as being America’s first celebrity and has even been granted honorary citizenship in some states (Klein). Lafayette’s accomplishments in America are celebrated‚ but not nearly as much as his contributions in France. The Marquis De Lafayette
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