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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of Bennett's “A Cream Cracker under the Settee”. The claim is made that the story is a perfect example of the duality of Bennett's humanism. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Humanism in Bennetts "A Cream Cracker under the Settee" ,
10/2010 --properly! Alan Bennett is a playwright well known for pointing out the ironies inherent in the human character. He is
most recently the author of a play called "The Habit of Art", wherein he depicts the private lives of two famous artists, with an emphasis on the hypocrisies, foibles, and
inconsistencies that made them human, in spite of their aesthetic greatness. This is not to say, however, that Bennett takes a dismal view of humanity - far from it. While
Bennetts choice of content may often be dismal or even macabre, his stories are always thematically constructed to convey a sense of empathy and compassion for the human condition, for
what possible response is there to the absurdities of life except to counter them with the absurdities of the self? At the same time, however, his stories often present some
kind of institutional theme as well, decrying the way in which institutions often repress the human spirit and undermine the value of life. In this way, even though Bennett is
an author of tragedies, he is a very humanistic writer in terms of theme. Nowhere is this tendency more evident than in his dramatic monologue, "A Cream Cracker under the
Settee". "A Cream Cracker under the Settee" tells the story of an old widow named Doris who falls while attempting to dust a hanging photograph of herself and her
late husband Wilfred. Despite having in-home help in the form of a maid named Zulema, Doris insists that the picture is still filthy, and that Zulema only "half-dusts" (Bennett 1998,
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