How does Alan Bennett express conflicting views about education through his portrayal of the four teachers in « The History Boys »? In this play‚ the author Alan Bennett wants to convince the audience that education can be approached in many different ways. In fact‚ through the characters of Hector‚ Irwin‚ Dorothy Lintott and the headmaster‚ he shows us that there is no “right” or “wrong” way of teaching. The first educator properly introduced to the audience is Hector‚ a rather unusual teacher
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In this essay I will show that there are different views on education and that we see them in the different teachers. You can see that Hector is the more outgoing teacher. Mrs Lintott is the stereotypical teacher and Irwin is the new teacher with new views on education. I will go in-depth into the teacher’s point of view. I will start with the one of the main teachers and that is Hector. Hector is a very important character he is one that thinks that children should not only be taught the syllabus
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The Examination of the Uncanny in Real Life and Literature Uncanny. The word itself mocks it ’s own paradoxical definition. This paper aims to sufficiently explain the concept of the uncanny in relation to Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle ’s An Introduction to Literature‚ Criticism and Theory – Chapter Five “The Uncanny.” In this chapter‚ it is suggested that there are thirteen unlucky forms that the uncanny can take. From these thirteen forms‚ four have stood out as striking‚ and those will
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’ E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End is often referred to as one of the key realist texts of the 20th century‚ yet the presence of the uncanny significantly alters the texts main realist themes‚ be it by strengthening or weakening these ideals. Bennett & Royle’s characteristics of the uncanny are pertinent to Howards End‚ though five are more relevant than the others. All five aspects can be seen to make the realist tendencies of the novel more potent while at the same time subtly undermining
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Role of the Author: New Criticism and Poststructuralism This paper studies the role of the author from the perspectives of New Criticism and Poststructuralism. The nature of the two critical approaches must be elucidated before the discussion. According to ‘The Norton Introduction to Literature’‚ New Critics’ critical practice is to demonstrate formal unity by showing how every part of a work contributes to a central unifying theme. Every part is related to the whole and the whole is reflected
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examples signal that Marlow embodies the idea of a strange relationship for a man‚ thus representing the difference from the normative behavior pushed onto men. Likewise‚ Bennett and Royle discuss that queerness was defined by homosexuality for men in the late 19th century‚ just prior to the publication of Heart of Darkness (Bennett and Royle 261). Heart of Darkness demonstrates an accurate discourse of homosexuality within men‚ as homosexuality was seen as outlawed‚ both legally and socially‚ and could
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The Phallocentrism in ‘If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller’ and the Feminism in ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ All literary texts‚ according to Bennett and Royle (153-154)‚ can be thought about in terms of how they represent gender difference and how far they may be said to reinforce or question gender stereotypes and sometimes provoke us to think about the very idea of gender opposition. On top of the essential anatomical or biological difference between the male and female‚ various kinds of gender-stereotypes
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their room: “In that the world’s contracted thus;”(26). To quote Bennet and Royle; “In this sense‚ it may seem that the poem is categorically separate from the “real” world and from ‘real’ people.” (30). This quote is used for another poem‚ but it can also be directly applied to “The sun Rising”. The poem is all about the speaker trying to fabricate a new world out of words and therefore separating himself from
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leading character. -The Royle Family which is a British television sitcom produced by Granada Productions for the BBC‚ which ran for three series between 1998 and 2000. Absolutely Fabulous is an example of character interplay sitcom. Two main characters are: Edina "Eddy" Monsoon and Patsy Stone‚ a pair of high-powered career women on the London fashion scene. Eddy runs her own PR firm‚ and Patsy holds a sinecure position at a top British fashion magazine. The Royle Family is an example of so
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Is the book Labour Relations in the Global Fast Food Industry (Royle & Towers 2002) and its key findings the product of the authors’ ideological frame of reference? Or is it the product of genuine‚ objective research? Introduction Employment relations is the study of all aspect of work and the interaction between the management and the employees or the employee’s representative such as the Union (Ackers and Wilkinson‚ 2005). The underlying beliefs of employment or labour relations are often implicit
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