How Does Bennet Use Subversion to Shock the Audience in the French Scene?
The History Boys is a play written by Alan Bennett. Bennet uses comedy techniques through the play, to humour the audience. The French scene is farcical, it is highlighted as it is seen to be very subversive as we see the students; Rudge, Scripps, Dakin, Posner, Akhtar acting out a brothel scene with the permission of their general studies teacher Hector.
The beginning of the French scene is subversive as the teacher asks the students what they would like to do in the lesson suggesting that he has not planned the lesson showing the bad standard of teaching as he is unprepared. However, this is not too surprising because the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher …show more content…
But a brothel where all the clients use the subjunctive or the conditional, yes? Here. Already a client! Who is the maid?” it is very inappropriate for a teacher to agree with the suggestion of acting out a brothel scene. This doesn’t link with the subject ‘general studies’ however this was normal in regards to the time it has been set in, 1980’s – 1984 was not a national curriculum during this time. As the place being spoken about is a grammar school and during those times schools were funded by the church therefore the phrase brothel is morally wrong from the perspective of the church. The play is set in the 1980’s and in 1984 the teachers had control of what students were learning but in the 1980’s the government were fighting for control. This explains as to why in that period there was not a good standard of teaching as the students were not taught according to what is important but more than what their teachers wanted to teach …show more content…
I am the maid.” it is unexpected to have someone volunteer to be the maid, implying they know that they would be picked on to play the role which they did not want to do. Another interpretation of this is he didn’t want to play the prostitute. There is a one work sentence shows he was eager to play that role, this was followed by a short sentence which emphasises the normality of the scene.
“Enter, if you please. There is your bed and here is your prostitute.” They are acting calmly they are used to this happening and it’s very normal for teenagers to be acting out a brothel scene which is subversive for the audience
The scene is very surprising, we can infer this from POSNER who says “But your shoes, sir, not on the bed. And your pants, if you please.” This is could be seen as incongruity theory because it’s very subversive to find a student in school to tell another student to take their trousers of, you also would not expect the teacher to stand and
The History Boys is a play written by Alan Bennett. Bennet uses comedy techniques through the play, to humour the audience. The French scene is farcical, it is highlighted as it is seen to be very subversive as we see the students; Rudge, Scripps, Dakin, Posner, Akhtar acting out a brothel scene with the permission of their general studies teacher Hector.
The beginning of the French scene is subversive as the teacher asks the students what they would like to do in the lesson suggesting that he has not planned the lesson showing the bad standard of teaching as he is unprepared. However, this is not too surprising because the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher …show more content…
But a brothel where all the clients use the subjunctive or the conditional, yes? Here. Already a client! Who is the maid?” it is very inappropriate for a teacher to agree with the suggestion of acting out a brothel scene. This doesn’t link with the subject ‘general studies’ however this was normal in regards to the time it has been set in, 1980’s – 1984 was not a national curriculum during this time. As the place being spoken about is a grammar school and during those times schools were funded by the church therefore the phrase brothel is morally wrong from the perspective of the church. The play is set in the 1980’s and in 1984 the teachers had control of what students were learning but in the 1980’s the government were fighting for control. This explains as to why in that period there was not a good standard of teaching as the students were not taught according to what is important but more than what their teachers wanted to teach …show more content…
I am the maid.” it is unexpected to have someone volunteer to be the maid, implying they know that they would be picked on to play the role which they did not want to do. Another interpretation of this is he didn’t want to play the prostitute. There is a one work sentence shows he was eager to play that role, this was followed by a short sentence which emphasises the normality of the scene.
“Enter, if you please. There is your bed and here is your prostitute.” They are acting calmly they are used to this happening and it’s very normal for teenagers to be acting out a brothel scene which is subversive for the audience
The scene is very surprising, we can infer this from POSNER who says “But your shoes, sir, not on the bed. And your pants, if you please.” This is could be seen as incongruity theory because it’s very subversive to find a student in school to tell another student to take their trousers of, you also would not expect the teacher to stand and