Mrs Lintott

Question 1

‘Point A. Point B. point C.’ (Rudge about Mrs Lintott’s teaching)

Answer 1

Demonstrates how Mrs Lintott represents the traditional facts based style of teaching. She believes that the facts should speak for themselves and that is what people should value the most.

Question 2

‘Plainly stated and properly organised facts need no presentation.’ (Mrs Lintott)

Answer 2

Not only demonstrates, again how she represents the traditional facts based learning/ teaching but also gives an insight into her view on Irwin’ style of teaching. She, like hector dislikes it but for different reasons Hector dislikes the detachment of it, whereas Mrs Lintott dislikes the ‘showy’ side of it. She dislikes Irwin’s (in a way) false teaching/ views.

Question 3

‘He impinges; Which is something one will never do’ (Mrs Lintott about Hector)

Answer 3

Mrs Lintott is, in a way, the voice of detachment in the play. She believes in truth and facts. (Is this a deliberate antithesis to the stereotypical view of women as ‘emotional’?)

Question 4

‘I have not hitherto been allotted an inner voice.’ (Mrs Lintott)

Answer 4

She is the only female character in the play with a voice. Links to the context of the 1980s- not many high up women in Society.

Question 5

‘I am what men would call a safe pair of hands’ (Mrs Lintott)

Answer 5

She is very much a representative of women in 1980s society. She’s detached and not really given a role in the play, yet without her the boys would not have got as far as they did.

Question 6

‘They [men] kick their particular stone across the street and I watch’ (Mrs Lintott)

Answer 6

Again, it shows how she is a woman of the 1980s. She is in the background of society and doesn’t partake in the main action as men do.

Question 7

Akthar [after explaining about obscure architects]: ‘you wouldn’t get far miss’
Mrs Lintott: ‘Nor will you’

Answer 7

Shows how Mrs Lintott believes in truth and facts. She doesn’t feel as if lying will get the boys very far in life at all.