relationships? The history Boys is a comedy play based on a group of intelligent and funny sixth-form boys in the 1980’s.The boys find themselves in different sitations‚whether it’s to do with love‚ heartbreak or heir further education and their future. These situations that they are faced with‚ contribute o he humur the play. In the beginning of the play‚we are introduced to one of he boys teachers‚Mr Hector.The relationship between Hector and the boys seems informal and sexual as he hits the boys and allows
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Education – what is it for? In “The History Boys” two different approaches to education are presented. Irwin represents the functional approach‚ his teaching methods are traditional and structured‚ focused solely on passing the Oxbridge entrance examinations. Hector teaches the life enrichment approach in his General Studies class‚ his teaching methods are unconventional and spontaneous‚ Hector is not interested in exams and believes in learning for its own sake. Hector undermines the values of
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Question 1: Linear Acceleration Please remember to photocopy 4 pages onto one sheet by going A3→A4 and using back to back on the photocopier Page Introduction 2 Introductory questions taken from Physics Papers 3 Solutions to above 4 Ordinary Level Exam Questions – Worked Solutions 5 Ordinary Level Exam Questions 8 Answers to Ordinary Level Exam Questions 10 Higher Level Introduction to vertical motion 12 Introductory questions taken from Physics Papers
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Explore the theme of love in Auden’s poetry Although he married the daughter of the German novelist Thomas Mann in 1935‚ Auden did not love her. This was an arranged marriage which allowed her to have the British citizenship and escape from Nazi Germany. Auden met his true love‚ the poet Chester Kallman‚ in New York in 1939. Kallman became Auden’s companion for the rest of his life. Love is a recurrent theme in Auden’s poetry but so are many others such as world war two‚ politics‚ indifference
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Montrosity is a key in Frankenstein‚ and it affects both the Creature and Victor‚ whilst at the same time ‚ Shelley argues that society is monstrous through injustices of the time and the social conventions. Frankenstein could be said to be the monster himself- when he says “miserable monster” whom “I had created”‚ we see Shelley implicitly suggest‚ through the alliterative phrase‚ that just as “Adam was created in God’s image” so too was the Creature born in the image of Victor. Moreover‚ the idea
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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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How does the writer explore the themes of tolerance and empathy in chapters 2 and 3? In chapter 2 Miss Caroline is introduced. She has come across as a very sweet and innocent lady. “She had bright auburn hair‚ pink cheeks and wore crimson finger- nail polish. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop”. This quote highlights her innocence and exaggerates the difference between Miss Caroline‚ who is very clean-cut‚ to the rest of Maycomb‚ which is less educated and poor. Miss Caroline states that
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The fence in the boy in the striped pajamas represents the imaginary barrier between the two different worlds that the two boys belonged too. It was the crossing point from a life of privilege to a life of torment and confinement. It represented the irony in the fact that a simple object such as a fence could separate 2 completely different lives.The fence divides the jews from the germans and the fortunate from the unfortunate. Because the boys don’t understand each other’s lives they think nothing
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