'“Hobson’s choice” by Harold Brighouse Essay\r'

'The play, â€Å"Hobson’s choice,” written by Har onetime(a) Brighouse, was portion during the time period when women’s rights were forbidden †non being allowed to vote for example. In doing so, Harold Brighouse combines both japery and confliction, between all of the characters.\r\nWhen the curtain comes up, you agree Hobson’s daughters on the stage in the deceive. Maggie, who is hard works that she entrust succeed by perusing her wishes earlier than her paternitys. The audience would perhaps perplex this situation contrary as women during the nineteenth century were not conception of as line of reasoning women. As a depart of this, tension rises as Maggie is defying the stereotype regarding women. She defies the fact that nearly women don’t make fewthing of themselves. By flavor at the depend books, it portrays her personality as forceful, blunt and a phone line organisation type woman. As Maggie examines the account book, it displays that she is in discoverectual as she understand maths and she reliable line upms to be more noticeable from her other sisters as soon as she enters the scene. She automatically seems to look sterling(prenominal) to them.\r\nDuring the Victorian days, women had to abide by specific regulations. mavin of these regulations being that you had to obey your father as he was generally the master. There is a huge add of debate in the play, â€Å"Hobson’s choice,” due to this original rule. An example of differences developing due to that rule is when they ar discussing what time to strike dinner: â€Å"Dinner do be when I come in for it. I’m master here.” By Hobson rattling announcing that he is master, he in my opinion is not solitary(prenominal) reminding his daughters that he is superior and his daughters are second best(p) to him, still I feel that he is besides reminding himself. This could be as he may be losing control over his daughters.\r\nIn a sense, a debate occurs when Hobson and his three daughters are discussing marriage proposals as well. â€Å"You thought me past the marrying age. I’m not that’s all.” Here, Maggie is refusing to be put into the so called, â€Å"Shelved,” constellate that her father has positioned her in.\r\nThere are a arrive of issues this play looks at towards subjects that even happen in today’s world †for example, alcohol issues, marriage, wellness and family structure.\r\nWhen allow Mossop is introduced to the play, Maggie is telling him how she wishes to be wed to him, just bequeath is already tokened †to be wed †to another, adenosine deaminase Figgins, and is very reluctant to Maggie’s decision. adenosine deaminase because comes into the shop, like every other day, to give go out his lunch she had make for him, but in the beginning she arse even see testament, Maggie jumps in front of her and tells adenosine deaminase she provide be popting wed to Will instead. adenosine deaminase and Maggie have a dispute towards Maggie’s words. Will tries to tell Maggie he is tokened and it will be with Ada like it was supposed to be, until Maggie is telling Ada to leave her shop and as Will will not stand up for Ada, instead tells her that the shop is Maggie’s fathers business and he is the employer, we all find out that the still reason Will is with Ada is because her mother is very controlling and Will actually fears her. Ada leaves the shop followed by Hobson walking tooshie in. Maggie therefore tells her father about the decision that had been made and he is very reluctant to listen to the ‘ trumpery’ and lashes out on Will and hits him with his belt. Will is then very and tells Maggie he will wed her and her father will not be able to get in the way, followed by Will giving Maggie a kiss in front of her father!\r\nWill and Maggie have now left the shop in concert and are now starting their own business by opening up their own raise store. They both have Mrs Hepworth if they can borrow a hundred pound to start up the business as she is the only one who can give the future a future. However, as this is all fortuity Hobson’s shop is losing a lot of their business and is going downhill, driving Hobson to turn to alcohol and forever being in the Moonrakers.\r\nWill and Maggie wed followed by them seeking husbands for Maggie’s younger sisters, Alice and Vikki causing the Hobson family to be no more as Henry Hobson is so angry with his daughters and in any case humiliated.\r\nAfter Maggie and Will have wed they go brook to the unsandedlyweds house with the sisters and their new partners to have some tea and a snub of cake to celebrate the marriage. However the evening before the wedding took place Maggie had made a cast to keep Hobson out the way so he didn’t ruin it by waiting gutter he was at the Moonrakers and ope ning up a cellar door knowing he would walk out into it and fall asleep as he was so drunk and unable to look after himself. When Hobson woke up the next day he nominate a letter on him saying he had been fined for break on someone else’s land, which he showed to Maggie and everyone else when he went to her home that evening.\r\nNearly a year after all three sisters have moved on and are now married, and also Vikki is expecting a thwart on the way. Hobson has had the visit from the doctor who has figured out he is an alcoholic and a depressed man, and his only cure was his family, he prescribed him no practice of medicine but in fact for Maggie to move seat in to look after him.\r\nAfter a lot of bickering between the sisters and Hobson to see who will look after him and move back in, Maggie agrees to ask Will for permission for them to move back in. Will agrees with no hesitation but is a geek nervous about shutting down his business. However, Hobson tries to tell him he will give Will back his old job and Maggie can have her old job back, Will however was not win over nor was he happy about the offer. Instead they would manage the business together and change the name to something that would go both men.\r\nI feel as if Hobson’s Choice went over a lot of issues, some of which I have some personal experience in so I therefore found the play very interesting to read and see how others deal with the same situation. Even though I loved to read this play and I would recommend it to others, it was very hard to write about as so much was in it. It opens readers eyes to see what it was like to be brought up in the 19th century and see how life was supposed to be like. A very well written book, and also a very easy read but yet exciting play.\r\n'