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English Lit AS Level
The History Boys Critical Quotes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| John J Stinson, on Hector | "Hector is lovable, laudable, and imposing." |
| Duncan Wu, on the failures of Bennet's protaganists | "Tunnel vision is their besetting sin, and it usually implies a more profound failure” |
| Nicholas Hytner, on Hector | "The truth is that much of what Hector teaches is entirely self-indulgent, and his insistence on inflicting on his class the culture, high and low, of his own youth, is at least questionable." |
| Alan Bennett, on journalism in exams | "There is a journalistic side to answering an examination question" |
| John J Stinson, on explaining Irwin's actions | "Bennett wishes his audience to ask themselves who has not made accommodations and compromises with the world as it is" |
| Nicholas Hytner, on Irwin | "He regards culture, poetry, art to be commodities that you can buy into to spice things up" |
| Alan Bennett, on memorising literature | "When you do come across people who have literature at their fingertips and can quote things off by heart, then it is very impressive and enviable." |
| Alan Bennett, on the boys | "I wanted to show that the boys are the ones who know more than any of the teachers." |
| Alan Bennett, on teaching | "They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement." |
| John J Stinson, on history and the past | "Bennett clearly has a nostalgia for the past" |
| Nicholas Hytner, on Posner (and others like Scripps, Irwin and Hector) | "Many of the characters live in a state of frustrated possibility" |
| Emmanuel Levy, on Dakin | "Dakin, the smoldering, seductive young man who has people of all ages and sexes falling in love with him" |
| Monika Bregovic, on the end result of the boys' education | "They become human capital which is transformed into saleable goods and services, according to market demands" |
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