English coursework plan
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- Created on: 03-02-15 15:10
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- Are Larkin and Bennet's characters at the mercy of outside forces?
- Confines of fate and inevitability
- Confines of society
- Alternative point of view- glimmers of hope prevalent
- Dakin defines his own destiny (Oxbridge, yuppie)
- Even Hector hints that one can do good in the world even in small ways and take control of one's destiny
- Suggestion that by spreading Hector's passion for learning (symbolized by the 'parcel') one can do good
- Surreal quality not unlike the tone present in Larkin's poems- flicker of hope and optimism defying a completely fatalistic view of human life 'at the mercy of outside forces'
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- History Boys ends with Hector warmly advising boys to 'pass the parcel/not for you, not for me; but for someone, someday'
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