Question

Book - Hornbill (11th)

Discuss the elements of "The Browning Version"

Answer 1

-The play is replete with humourous description of a teacher by student
-Crocker Harris is pictured as an unusual teacher and an unusual human being
-He is a person who loves to be hated and makes attempts for that.
-He feels that Taplow likes him and so he tries to make him hate him.
-He is not even a sadist because that would mean that he has got feelings but he has got no feelings
-Only Taplow, out of compassion, laughs out at the joke Mr. Harris cracks in the class in the Latin language to which none responds. As a punishment Taplow is made to make the class understand the joke.
-Taplow’s frightened reaction when he finds Crocker Harris’s wife looking at them thinking she might have overheard them.