Elizabeth+Hoover

= Analyze of Elizabeth Hoover =

Elizabeth Hoover is known in The Simpsons as Lisa Simpsons teacher. She is a minor character and has no central meaning to the plot in the series. What makes her relevant is that she in fact is the genius of the family, Lisa’s teacher, and by being so unengaged with her work it is possible she makes Lisa thrive to prove her that she should care more about her work, because the importance of it. Elizabeth is pretty static as a character. She has at several occasions coloured her hair and outbreaks is not unusual, but that is pretty much what she is about all through the series, so even though she “surprises” sometimes, she stays pretty static as a follower to that. She is also much of a flat character, because we do not get to know very much about her past and how she feels about things. All we get to see is her outrageous way of behaving, and talking to the pupils. The character is presented as a parody/a satire on a stereotype, the teachers in society. The way many people in America see teachers as lazy drunks that actually don’t care about the kids they teach or their future for that matter.

Elizabeth Hoover is a teacher that does not care very much for her profession and the importance of it. She is bored and unengaged and does not even bother to hide it from the pupils. Therefore she has an apathetic way of expressing herself and she does not hesitate too make sarcastic and potentially hurtful comments to the kids. We do not get any particular insight in character’s feelings and thoughts, but most of the time she seems to be quite careless, in addition to being overwhelmed with stress which is something that is also reflected through her actions. She is a loyal smoker, and has even been seen smoking under a “no smoking” sign, as well as smoking during classes. It has also been implied that she frequently drinks during lunch. Plus the fact that she desperately tries to regain her stability, which she tries to achieve by rushing out of class to recite “Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean” while having her eyes closed, and on two occasions rushing off in her car. Her looks are as close as a teacher you can get, she wears glasses. “Surprisingly” her clothes are nothing more exciting but a blouse and a skirt. Her hair is originally blue, but has been coloured brown, which her current hair colour is. She has also had red hair. Her body language is as earlier mentioned very unengaged, careless and apathetic. As well as constantly giving the expression of being stressed. She does not care about whether the kids learn something of her or not, and that attitude is not something she tries to hide either. The kids respond to her usually crazy way of behaving with calling her crazy and one time when she had a psychosomatic condition they responded with calling her a “faker”. She, on the other hand does not care much about what the pupils thinks and they do not have much saying in school matters. She says exactly what she thinks about things, as she is worn down by her years and pretty much just do not care. Her strengths are not particularly revealed through the series, her weaknesses on the other hand are emphasized to the maximum. She is constantly stressed out and it does not take very much to make her tilt, and “break down”. Another weakness that is one of the most emphasized is the fact that she just does not care. So over all, Elizabeth as a character is pretty much a careless, stressed out and unengaged teacher. Sources: https://itslearning.no/main.aspx?CourseID=49408 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hoover#Elizabeth_Hoover [|http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Elizabeth_Hoover [|http://www.esimpsons.com/elementary_school And it was pretty much the same that stood on all of the pages, so I didn’t find very much about this character.