- Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples
- Correct Use of Verbs
- Correct Use of Preposition
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
- Active and Passive Voice
- Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
- Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
- Adjectives
- Irregular Verbs with Examples
- Modal Auxiliary Verb
- Use of Modal Verbs
- Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
- What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
- What Are Collective Nouns?
- What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Degree of Comparison
- Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
- Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
- Conjunction vs. Preposition
- Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
- Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
- Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
- Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
Comprehensive English: Organization
- Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types
- How to Write an Essay
- How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
- Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
- Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics
Comprehensive English: Figurative Language
- Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
- Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
- What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies
- Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity
- Forms of Assessment
- Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
- How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
- Standard Score: Definition & Examples
- Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
- How to Create a Writing Portfolio
Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking
Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills
English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle
- The Banyan Tree
- Desert Animals
- A Game of Chance
- Fair Play
- Who I Am
- A Different Kind of School
- An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
- How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
- Who Did Patrick’s Homework
English: Class 6 : Poem
English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun
- A Strange Wrestling Match
- What Happened to the Reptiles
- A Pact with the Sun
- The Wonder Called Sleep
- The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Tansen
- The Old Clock Shop
- The Shepherd’s Treasure
- The Friendly Mongoose
- A Tale of Two Birds
English: Class 7 : Honeycomb
English: Class 7: Alien Hand
- An Alien Hand
- A Tiger in the House
- The Bear Story
- Chandni
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Golu Grows a Nose
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Desert
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Tiny Teacher
English: Class 7: Poem
- Garden Snake
- Meadow Surprises
- Dad and the Cat and the Tree
- Mystery of the Talking Fan
- Trees
- Chivvy
- The Shed
- The Rebel
- The Squirrel
English: Class 8: Honey Dew
- The Great Stone Face II
- The Great Stone Face I
- A Short Monsoon Diary
- A Visit to Cambridge
- This is Jody’s Fawn
- The Summit Within
- Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
- Glimpses of the Past
- The Best Christmas Present in the World
English: Class 8: Poem
English: Class 8: It so happened
- Ancient Education System of India
- The Comet — II
- The Comet — I
- Jalebis
- The Open Window
- The Fight
- The Treasure Within
- The Selfish Giant
- Children At Work
English: Class 9: Beehive
- Kathmandu
- If I were You
- The Bond of Love
- Reach for the Top
- Packing
- My Childhood
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Sound of Music
- The Fun They Had
English: Class 9: Poem
English: Class 9: Moments
- A House Is Not a Home
- The Last Leaf
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama
- The Happy Prince
- In the Kingdom of Fools
English: Class 10: First Flight
- The Proposal
- The Sermon at Banaras
- Madam Rides the Bus
- Mijbil the Otter
- Glimpses of India
- The Hundred Dresses - II
- The Hundred Dresses - I
- From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Two Stories about Flying
- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
- A Letter to God
English: Class 10: Poem
English: Class 10: Foot prints
English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose
English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry
English: Class 11:Hornbill
- Silk Road
- The Adventure
- The Browning Version
- The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
- Landscape of the Soul
- Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
- The Portrait of a Lady
English: Class 11: Supplementary
- The Tale of Melon City
- Birth
- The Ghat of the Only World
- Albert Einstein at School
- Ranga’s Marriage
- The Address
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
English: Class 11: Poem
- 2Ajamil and the Tigers
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Refugee Blues
- For Elkana
- Hawk Roosting
- Mother Tongue
- The World is too Much With Us
- Telephone Conversation
- Coming
- Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- The Peacock
English: Class 12: Prose
- Going Places
- The Interview
- Poets and Pancakes
- Indigo
- The Rattrap
- Deep Water
- Lost Spring
- The Last Lesson
English: Class 12: Supplementary
Chapter Summary
“The Browning Version” is a play by Terence Rattigan that focuses on the attitude of a teenager student towards his teacher. It is a one-act play that involves three characters and is all set in school. The remarks that have done by the student are terrible because they are very close to reapty. The student mimics the voice of his teacher, Mr. Crocker-Harris and starts calpng the man inhuman. He is very terrified of his teacher.
The reason behind this is that this student’s promotion is completely dependent on the quirk or goodwill of his teacher. However, he chooses to open up when another teacher in the science group encourages and motivates him to do so.
On the other hand, it is clear that this teenager does not have any interest in Greek plays; moreover, he hates those plays. The reason behind this is that he does not pke the process or the way of his teacher’s method of teaching the play.
The most important thing about Mr. Crocker-Harris is that it seems pke he hates people. However, the reapty is different, because he is strict and discippned, but thinks good of his students. The description of a teacher is damaging which is described here and it ultimately portrays the way how a student fails to understand the real worth of his teacher or guide.
Attitude by Taplow towards Crocker-Harris
The play The browning version talks about the relationship between a student and his teacher and how one student fails to understand the true importance of his guide. Here, Mr. Crocker-Harris is the teacher of Taplow. According to Taplow and other students, Crocker- Harris is nothing but a ruthless, strict discippnarian and moreover he was represented as a Sadist too.
He is dedicated and hardworking which reflects in his behavior towards Taplow. He calls Taplow on the last day of his school, so he can make up for his missed class. No one has ever missed or cut any of his classes, because he bepeves everyone deserves equal attention and he is not partial to anyone.
Therefore, he decides to give Taplow what he deserves. In his career, he always wanted to keep a comfortable space with his students, even his co-worker Frank admires him because of the impact that he has on his students. The conception of him among his student, especially Taplow, is that he is cruel and but in reapty, he is strict.
Does Frank seem to encourage Taplow’s comments on Crocker-Harris?
In this play The Browning Version, it seems clear that Frank supports Taplow s comments about Mr. Crocker-Harris, especially on the shrivelled up remark. Taplow says that Mr. Crocker-Harris is a person who is shriveled up inside pke a nut and also mentions that Crocker-Harris hates those who pke him. Frank uses Taplow very cleverly to talk about him, and asked him a series of the question, as Frank was very curious to know the teaching method of Mr. Crocker-Harris. Therefore, Frank used one technique to get more information and started mentioning the name of Mr. Crocker-Harris repeatedly, so Taplow can talk about him and say something more about Crocker-Harris.
About Crocker-Harris
In this play, The Browning Version, Mr. Crocker-Harris is a strict teacher. He is very concerned about his rupees, regulations, and principles. He is a person who is never biased toward his students. To treat them equally, he never shows any kind of emotion in front of them, it helps him in treating all his students equally. The most important thing about him is that he is not a sadist, but a person who is dedicated and serious about his job. His one action shows his true nature as a teacher. On the last day of school, he schedules classes so that his students can make up all the missed classes, and this action shows that he is strict but at the same time he is aware of his responsibipties. He is very meticulous in his works and always remembers his responsibipty toward his students.
FAQs
Q1. What does The Browning Version mean as a title?
Ans. The browning version, means the title of the play is directly connected to the Greek tragedy Agamemnon, which was written by Aeschylus. In this play the character of the main protagonist Mr. Crocker Harris, kind resemblance that of to Agamemnon. In short, the title of the play focuses on his back story of him, which ultimately shaped his personapty.
Q2. What is the characteristic of the Mr. Crocker Harris, portrayed in The Browning Version?
Ans. In this play The Browning Version, the teacher, Mr. Crocker-Harris is a middle-aged person. According to his students, he is very wicked, ruthless, and strict as a teacher. However, in reapty, the scenario is completely different, because he may look strict or ruthless, but he is a dutiful inspanidual, who always thinks best for his students.
Q3. Why does Frank feel envy of Mr. Crocker Harris?
Ans. Frank has a feepng of envy toward Mr. Crocker Harris, because of the impact that the latter has on his students. However, Frank is very curious to know more about the teaching method of Mr. Crocker Harris.
Q4. What is the main thing that The Browning Version conveys?
Ans. The play The browning version represents the true scenario of the British education system. It reflects the attitude of a teenage student that he shows towards his teacher or guide. Therefore, it can be said that the play focuses on the relationship between the teacher and student. Here, for Taplow, his teacher Mr. Crocker-Harris is simply a ruthless person who is strict and represented as a sadist. Taplow is unaware of the true intention of his teacher, who is responsible and wants good for his students. Taplow mimics and mocks him in front of another teacher Frank, when Mr. Harris was not around. This is the main thing about the play, it represents the situation where the teacher is concerned about his student and the student is incapable of understanding the real worth of his teacher.