- Hector want to give the boys a sense of culture
- He wants to engrave in them a love and understanding of poetry, literature and the English language
- Since Hector cant live his own life he wants to inspire the boys to love what he loves and understand what he understands.
- Hectors main aim is to detract the boys from league tables and grades and focus on making them well rounded intuitive young men
- The head master wants to: Get the boys to pass their Oxbridge entrance exams for the sole purpose of making the school look good.
- Wants Irwin to make the boys stand out by give them the ability to make interesting and enjoyable essays, not simply dull good ones.
- His main objective is to be looked at as one of the top leading schools on the league tables!
- Posner wants to win the love and attention of Dakin- this is shown when he sings to him in hectors class
- Posner needs to understand and come to terms with his homosexuality- I'm a Jew I'm small, I'm a homosexual and I live in Sheffield, I'm fucked!"
- Posner is determined to Pass his exam as he believes that it might make Dakin love him and think of him more like he thinks of Irwin.
- Irwin wants to inspire the boys to be interesting and to give them flare.
- Wants to make the boys realise that truth isn't everything with an exam like this and that odd knowledge is useful knowledge.
- He wants to make the boys blossom into strong independent thinkers.
- To make the boy's-especially Dakin- everything he "wasn't clever enough" to be .
- Irwin wants to avoid beginning a sexual relationship with Dakin.
- Dakin wants above all else to impress Irwin.
- Dakin wants to have sex with fiona who he refers to as his "Western front"
- At first Dakin wants to challenge Irwin to see if he's up to the task at first, such as when he mocks him for discussing the "foreskin of christ"
- Dakin wants to push boundaries and explore then unknown, like at the end when he requests that Irwin and him "go for a drink" which he uses as an analogy for oral sex.
