Professor Eisenbart who before coming to the girls school had a secure and reassuring self confidence in his superiority over others compared to after where he discovers the lack of knowledge about him self and the self awareness of this prior stupidity. This change and new self awareness is brought about through his succumbing to the girlfs sexual power.
œ gEisenbarth is a metonymy, which in German means greybeard, emphasising the power structure of men being wiser and creating this image of him. The title gProfessorh enforces his academic supremacy over the girls and the underlying meaning of him being the eprize giverf is the patriarchal idea of being the dominant male with a higher status than the girls.
œA Marxist reading of the play is seen as girls representing a lower class of arts and music and the Professor representing the upper class through his higher education, age and male gender.
œ Patriarchal views through the visual imagery gwith one hand placed like Rodinfs Thinkerh where he composes himself as a thinker creating an image giving the impression of him being pompous in his self-importance. But this feeling of intellectual superiority is undermined by the visual imagery created through gsat grinning at him, her han****nt under her chin in mockery of his own.h mockery weakens sense of supremacy over all the girls because now his attention has been drawn to the one girl who aggravates him by not being interested in his presence. Indicates lack of self control within himself to ignore and control the situation.
œGirl continues to deliberately provoke Eisenbart shown through sexual imagery, ghitched at a stocking, winked at nearby friendsh. In her acting oblivious to his status it then has generated a desire in the Professor creating a passion to verse his reason. The feminist perspective shows the further sexual power that the girl is able to ex
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