Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The History Boys
Themes
- Education
- Purpose of
education
- Education system
- University
- Criticism of the
Oxbridge system
- Private education
- Gender
- Women's
role in history
- "History is not such a frolic
for women as it is for men"
- Side-lined in the
play, and in society
- Mrs Lintott is
aware of this
- "I have not hitherto been
allotted an inner voice"
- Sexuality
- Coming of age
- Homosexuality
- Posner
- Dakin
- Bisexuality
- Irwin
- Hector
- Fluidity of
sexuality
- Relationship
between Dakin
and Irwin
- History
- Views/representations
of history
- History repeats itself
- Posner the only boy who
"took everything to heart"
- Hector - "Pass it on"
- Poetry
- Class
- Effect on education
- Rudge must
work harder
than other boys
- Rudge not expected to
get into Oxbridge
- Dakin/Rudge
- Antithesis of
each other