Category: The History Boys

The History Boys’: The Comedy in the Play Alan Bennetts The History Boys uses the opposition created between the characters of Hector and Irwin to structure the play and question the education system. The two characters are naturally opposed – in age, teaching style and fundamental beliefs. This creates comedy which is used, perhaps to…

The History Boys’: Attitudes Towards Women Alan Bennett presents the attitudes towards women in The History Boys in a variety of different ways. One way that Bennett does this is by highlighting the lack of female characters in the play. There are only two female characters in the whole of the play, with only one…

The History Boys’: A Study of The Theme of Sexuality The complex exploration of homosexual relations that break the boundaries between pupils and teachers should be typically identified as scandalous, and as a form of paedophilia in a school. However, Alan Bennett presents the issue at a modest grammar school in Sheffield in a radically…

The History Boys’: The Comedy in the Play Alan Bennetts The History Boys uses the opposition created between the characters of Hector and Irwin to structure the play and question the education system. The two characters are naturally opposed – in age, teaching style and fundamental beliefs. This creates comedy which is used, perhaps to…

The History Boys’: Attitudes Towards Women Alan Bennett presents the attitudes towards women in The History Boys in a variety of different ways. One way that Bennett does this is by highlighting the lack of female characters in the play. There are only two female characters in the whole of the play, with only one…

The History Boys’: A Study of The Theme of Sexuality The complex exploration of homosexual relations that break the boundaries between pupils and teachers should be typically identified as scandalous, and as a form of paedophilia in a school. However, Alan Bennett presents the issue at a modest grammar school in Sheffield in a radically…

The Worlds Wife and History Boys: Reader’s Reflection Where Duffy uses revisionism to re-evaluate alternative representations of femininity in history throughout The Worlds Wife, Bennett encourages the reader to re-evaluate the nature of history through Irwins revisionist versions of it, so introducing the idea of historiography, whereby historical accounts are dependent upon personal experiences or…

Main Theme of History Boys: Analytical Essay Throughout the play Bennett has made Dakin to appear the most confident and self- assured out of the boys but the audience later find out that this is just an act to cover up his vulnerability. An underlying theme in the history boys is sexuality and throughout the…

Sexuality in British Literature: Critical Analysis of Gender and Sexuality in History Boys In both texts, gender and sexuality are presented by the authors as something which is supposed to aid the students in their learning and is a natural component of their education. Miss Brodie, for example, continuously emphasises how important being in her…

Sexuality in British Literature: Critical Analysis of Gender and Sexuality in History Boys In both texts, gender and sexuality are presented by the authors as something which is supposed to aid the students in their learning and is a natural component of their education. Miss Brodie, for example, continuously emphasises how important being in her…