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26 Cards in this Set
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Hector- breakdown |
"What made me piss my life away in this god-forsaken place? There's nothing of me left." "Scripps indicates to Dakin that hector is crying. Scripps is nearest to him and ought to touch him but doesn't, nor does Dakin." |
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Hector metaphor |
"Pass the parcel. Take it, feel it and pass it on." |
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Timms |
"Hector's stuff isn't meant for the exam sir, it's to make us more rounded human beings." Past approach to education, contrast to modern, set in 1980s, importance of exams, more utilitarian approach |
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Drummer hodge |
Unfulfilled life- like hector, repressed sexuality 1967 homosexuality made legal |
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Hector hypocrite |
"Proudly jingling your emblems of conformity." |
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Irwin |
"I sympathise with your feelings about examinations but they are a fact of life." Modern way of education- 1980s "when people seemed to think the system had changed" league tables 1992- business like |
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Truth irwin |
"But it's all true."-scripps "What has that got to do with it?" State school students need to compete with private schools that have been "groomed for this one particular race." 1980s- low number of of state school students being accepted into Oxbridge |
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1st scene |
"The loss of Liberty is the price we pay for justice, type thing." |
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Irwin survives accident but hector doesn't |
Symbolic of the fading on the old liberal ethos in the world of education, replaced by a more hardened and suited to the modern era |
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Posner |
"I'm a Jew, I'm small. I'm homosexual. And I live in Sheffield. I'm ******." Home sexuality made legal in 60s but still some hostility in 80s but for a modern audience- acceptance |
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Posner- holocaust |
"There was a question on the holocaust and I did play it down." Willing to put aside his better judgement and heritage in order to pass an exam and impress those in authority. |
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Mrs Lintott about posner |
"The only one who truly took everything to heart." |
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Headmaster |
"Quantifiable results... Unpredictable, assess, league tables." Anachronism to highlight the competitive society in 80s |
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Headmaster- unprofessional |
"I'm glad he handles his pupils balls." |
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Lang towards Lintott |
"I don't want to spell it out." "I assumed you knew." |
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Headmaster- hector |
"To be fair, I think it was more appreciative that investigatory... But it is inexcusable nonetheless." |
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Posner- unsure of who he is |
"Then Dakin might love me." Sir, I think I may be homosexual." |
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Dakin- war imagery |
"She's my western front... And around 23:00 hours our forces withdrew." Females submissive in patriarchal society yet thatcher as PM "Tits" "not onto it and certainly not into it, but up to it." "As far as...the actual place." |
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Dakins sexuality |
"I'd say we could have a drink." "Tomorrow then?' |
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Lintott history |
"History is a commentary on the various and continuing in capabilities of men." |
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Lintott |
"Not hitherto been allotted an inner voice." Women's muted role in society Burgeoning feminism late 70s |
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Lintott- Oxbridge interviews |
"One of the Dons... May be a woman |
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Lintott - masculine ineptitude |
"Pillars of a community that no longer had much use for a pillar" "**** struck" "****" |
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Hectors wife |
"A husband in low light, that's what they want... The mans Luke warm attentions, just what they married them for." |
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Education- hector |
" I count examinations, even for Oxford and Cambridge as the enemy of education." "All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use." |
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Education debate |
Scenes in play alternate between classrooms of hector and Irwin- allows audience to compare and contrast teaching approaches like boys do. |
