The History Boys Essay

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Our adaption of The History Boys focuses around the death of Hector and explains the mysterious incident in which Irwin, too, was fatally injured from the motorcycle crash. This was to emphasise the idea that traditional knowledge and exercises regarding education in society are archaic and are becoming less appreciated. We decided to only include the characters Hector, Irwin (old and young), Posner, Dakin and Scripps. The main roles were those of Hector, Irwin (young and old) and Posner because the main conflict was centred around Hector’s death.

Our idea for the adaptation stemmed from the conflict between Hector and Irwin – through their clash of ideologies on education and also their conduct inside and out of the classroom. Thus our aim …show more content…

The issue of education is played throughout The History Boys, as the Headmaster comments that Hector’s results, “are unpredictable and unquantifiable and in the current educational climate that is no use.” The belief that education should be for life has been casted away from society by Alan Bennett, which is shown in the last scene of the play where Irwin comments, “He was a good man but I do not think there is time for his kind of teaching anymore.” We believed that this was central to the plot of The History Boys and thus portrayed it at the …show more content…

This was particularly foreshadowed by Old Irwin and his insincerity in the opening scene. By beginning on the set of Irwin’s History Television program there is a revolving link between the play and our addition, but most importantly it is to suggest that past events should be scrutinised and played upon, which Irwin has opened himself to. The bike scene is our main adaption to the plot of The History Boys where instead of Irwin’s presence being presumed to disturb equilibrium of forces on the bike we supported his facade in the opening scene by his impractical actions. Nevertheless we endeavoured at the conclusion to provide their carriage of Hector and his forgotten method of teaching but to follow the conclusion of The History Boys where Scripps isn’t sure which side he belongs to and Posner side with

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