Sex And Sexuality In 'Gerontion' By T. S. Eliot

The play frequently deals with theme of sex and sexuality and raises the issues of sexual behaviour between teachers and their pupil. The play was set in 1983 when expressing sexuality was seen as “sin” however the play was received in 2004.
This scene is pivotal as it’s the beginning of the end of Hector’s teaching career. Scrips is narrating the scene and introduces the hector summon by the Headmaster’s office. Typically, erudite banter based upon the “Larkin’s himself must on occasion have stamped. ‘after such knowledge, what forgiveness?’” This is a line from "Gerontion", by TS Eliot.The rhetorical question to suggest a sense of loss and disillusion and the language is recondite and allusive. As with all of Eliot's poetry it is voiced by an old man who knows that everything that he held dear is vanishing, and the future is uncertain and the end is always near. Which in this case is metaphorically Hector being “old man” which also foreshadows his death near

E. Housman”, himself a homosexual. Moreover, a major plot point which gets discovered in this conversation and get in open revelation that Hector gropes the boys when they ride with him on his motor bikes, when Headmaster finds out, Hector defend himself by saying the “transformation of knowledge is necessarily erotic” suggesting Bennett’s reference to George Steiner lesson from “the master about the transmission of knowledge”. A statement that would never hold up against the judgemental glare of society, but one that rings all too true for anyone who’s found themeselves with an inspirational teacher. There are two type of teacher shown in play one who believes that you acquire enough knowledge to pass your test and become successful professionally. In contrast, you have the teacher who wants their students to acquire knowledge and then test the knowledge they've acquired. Moreover, hector is putting his idea of knowledge into