Love, Choice and Improvement
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- Created on: 26-05-16 21:39
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- Themes in Hobson's Choice 2
- Choice
- Hobson's choices
- Choice
- run business properly
- drink alcohol to excess
- treat his daughters with respect
- a 'hobson's choice'
- live with Maggie and willie
- have willie take over the business
- give up alochol
- live with Maggie and willie
- Choice
- Willie's choices in getting married
- little resistance
- magige; 'escape route'?
- will's choice to buy a new ring
- love and respect
- become his own man, in charge of his own destiny
- do what's right
- show how he's changed
- shows confidence that he can make important decisions
- Alice and vickey's Choices
- looking after father
- assume Maggie will
- don't look after him
- selfish and self-centred
- choose to go their own way of life
- looking after father
- Maggie and Willie's choice to look after Hobson
- take over business and work as a partnership
- show they have a sense of duty
- Hobson's choices
- Improvement
- How Willie improves himself
- Beginning
- 'natural fool'
- gets praise
- maggie
- Mrs Hepworth
- Middle
- learns to read
- business funded by Mrs Hepwoth
- Accepted by Alice and Vickey
- makes his own wedding speech
- master of the house not Maggie
- End
- 1 year later he is 'prosperous' and has 'self confidence'
- Will go to Hobson's on 'my terms'
- improves Mossop's and Hobson's
- made more improvement than Alice and Vickey
- "We do get on in the world, don't we?"
- "Some folks get on too fast"
- "We do get on in the world, don't we?"
- Beginning
- How Maggie improves Willie
- gives him confidence
- by referring to him/ asking for advice
- trusts his opinion
- by referring to him/ asking for advice
- Teaches him to read
- recognises his skills and ability
- moves him up in the social hierarchy
- gives him confidence
- How Willie improves himself
- Love
- Maggie
- with will...
- not romantic, based on vision trust and respect
- love will come in time, it grows
- the relationship brings out the best int hem.
- wears the first ring 'for ever'
- compares courting to a fancy buckle
- 'all glitter and no use to anyone'
- appears not to care about love
- with will...
- Willie
- not sure what love is
- nevous, frightened of maggie
- doesn't want to gotinto the bedroom
- ' Maggie's not the sort you get familiar with'
- nevous, frightened of maggie
- "I'm non in love with you"
- ada needs 'protecting'
- kissing Maggie
- first to defy Hobson
- second to celebrate their marriage
- not sure what love is
- Alice and Vickey
- escape route from their father
- Romantic
- way to raise themselves in society
- want money and status
- foolish, infatuation 'sheep's eyes'
- escape route from their father
- Hobson
- his old wife
- 'a wife's a handy thing'
- dealt with the daughters
- 'felt grateful for the quiet'
- 'a wife's a handy thing'
- Daughter's marriage
- Way of getting rid of his daughters
- not prepared to pay settlements
- Maggie shouldn't marry
- shouldn't marry below her status
- his wife was 'higher than that'
- shouldn't marry below her status
- Way of getting rid of his daughters
- his old wife
- Maggie
- Choice
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