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- Early 20s, moustache and pale face
- Everything about him suggests a weak and ineffectual individual
- Scared
- Crude
- Desperate
- He complains about a lack of food and goes to bed rather than join in the meal and the conversation
- Hibbert demonstrates his true character by showing the other men rude pictures and boasting about his exploits with women. ---Trotter's remarks to him show that he is behaving strangely and is drunk-this has made him unusually talkative.
- At the end of the play any sympathy he had gained earlier by agreeing to stay is soon lost when fails to perform his duty by deliberately wasting time. This provides a contrast to Raleigh who, despite his argument with Stanhope the previous night, willingly joins his platoon, eventually sacrificing his life.
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- Sherriff immediately establishes him as someone who is not contributing fully to the team, and because of this, we do not feel sympathy for him.
- Sherriff presents Hibbert unfavourably throughout the play, but this is particularly clear at the meal after Obsorne's death.
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- When he argues with Stanhope, it becomes clear that Hibbert is suffering psychologically.
- The fact that Stanhope has to threaten and then manipulate him into stauing shows the extent both of his mental anguish, and his lack of care for the other officers.
- Moved by Hibbert's suffering but on the other we realise that he is failing to do his duty in difficult circumstances.
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- Hibbert is described as 'small' and 'slightly built' [page 24]
- Stanhope views him unsympathetically as a 'worm' and 'an artful little swine' [page 25], trying to get home; he immediately assumes he is faking his illness - Osborne's more controlled opinion provides a balancing view.
- The other characters view Hibbert negatively: Stanhope obviously dislikes him and Trotter calls him a 'funny little bloke' [page 65]-Only Osborne who is aware of his weakness, and Raleigh, who is a newcomer, do not judge him.
- When he refers to Raleigh as being 'too keen on his duty' [page 85], we are reminded of his own inadequacies in this area.
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