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
      • 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
      • Maggie and Willie's choice to look after Hobson
        • take over business and work as a partnership
        • show they have a sense of duty
    • 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?"
      • How Maggie improves Willie
        • gives him confidence
          • by referring to him/ asking for advice
            • trusts his opinion
        • Teaches him to read
        • recognises his skills and ability
        • moves him up in the social hierarchy
    • 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
      • 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'
        • "I'm non in love with you"
          • ada needs 'protecting'
        • kissing Maggie
          • first to defy Hobson
          • second to celebrate their marriage
      • Alice and Vickey
        • escape route from their father
          • Romantic
        • way to raise themselves in society
          • want money and status
        • foolish, infatuation 'sheep's eyes'
      • Hobson
        • his old wife
          • 'a wife's a handy thing'
            • dealt with the daughters
          • 'felt grateful for the quiet'
        • 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'

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