... Vickey and she sees him as easy prey. Maggie also does not see the need for courting, she believes it is useless. Maggie makes a comparison of courting to having a fancy buckle on a shoe, "see that fancy silver ...

... shocked the original audience, as there are no traditional male and female roles, this may have been considered unusual for the people of that time. Brighouse ensures that at the end of the play Willie is the one that is in ...

... a fool of himself when Mrs.Hepworth, a very important high class wealthy lady enters the shop to praise Wille for his work on her boats. It is irregular for a high class person to do this to a lower class ...

... is in operation would usually his time in the Moonraker's Inn. He would usually meet with Jim Healer, his companion. Hobson creates an image of himself as a rather domineering character. His hypocrisy is a main ingredient of his bullying ...

... and Alice and Vickey obey him because they do not know how to win the argument with their father because they are not that well educated. Whereas Maggie is clever, mature and gives orders to Hobson. We think she comes ...

... play starts going, we can that Maggie isn't happy about women in the society. We can see this dominant role, when Albert Prosser enters the shop, to see his girlfriend, Alice. Maggie manipulates Albert by saying "This is a shop ...

... ) to believe that he was a hard working business man, who ran his home with a firm hand, but his efforts - and money - were in vain, as he spent most hours of the day at the "Moonrakers" ...

... assistance of Maggie to find out who made the boots, after getting nowhere with Hobson. This puts Hobson out and he still tries to interfere and show his importance. He assures Mrs Hepworth that he will make the man that ...

... jewellery that he wears. Towards the end of this scene, we meet William Mossop. He plays an important part in this book. When we first meet him, he is a shy fellow. "I'm not much good at owt but leather." As the ...

... merger with his daughter and Will. At the time the play was set in, the class system was used and consisted of lower middle and higher class, Hobson is of a high-medium class while Willie is of lower class. My ...

... revolve around her. She does not really change much during the play we just discover hidden aspects of her character. Willie is more important because his character develops as a person and grows in stature. The audience watches his journey ...

... to have any family as he lodges with Mrs Figgins and her daughter Ada, who Will is betrothed to. The play follows the Hobson/Mossop family through a very eventful year. In Act One Will is working in the basement ...

... and body language when Ms Hepworth, a high classed customer, enters his shop. When Hobson greets Ms. Hepworth he immediately rushes to pull up a chair for her to sit on. Ms Hepworth questions Henry Hobson about who made her ...

... to be late for lunch, which according to Maggie, would take place at 1pm. Hobson then decides to get his own way by telling Maggie dinner will be when he is ready. At this moment she decided to put the ...

... 8 small sections each focussing on a different animal. This is because of their very different purposes. 'Hobson's Choice' tells a story and the three acts show scene changes and progressions in the story. However, the sections in 'Still Life ...

... Manchester and these boots are the best-made pair of boots I've ever had. Now you'll make my boots in future.' Throughout this passage Will Mossop doesn't say a dozen words and is very timid. Our first view of the man ...

... provide a service> Maximising sales> Providing a competitive service Mr. K. Day's objectives:> To advertise more (A&B)> To work longer hours> Providing more services (different kinds of services) Hobson's aims:> To make a profit> To provide quality services> To provide quality products ...

... 1914 the play industry halted because of the outbreak of World War One, which lasted for four years. At the start of World War One Mr. Brighouse was in France. He was forced to leave France and return home. At ...

... pronounced, since he declares Willie unfit for Maggie to marry because "his father was a workhouse brat", and similarly treats Mrs Hepworth with great respect, though she -being in the class well above Hobson- treats him with disdain. This shows ...

... Brighouse's purpose in writing the play was to highlight gender issues, provide comedy incidents and focus on social problems, for example the Victorian's attitude to alcohol. Brighouse created Hobson's character to convey the stereotypical middle class family man, whilst introducing humour ...

... performance. The contexts of both texts are very different. Hobson's Choice was written in 1880s when Salford was poor, therefore we could have a poor family in our performance. The song was written in the time of the Vietnamese was when ...

... us using the imagery of Willie coming up "like a rabbit" from a trapdoor in the floor. We can also gather that he is uneducated in that he is unable to read and cannot talk properly. However, despite all this ...

... prove her father otherwise throughout the play. This comment from Hobson will give the audience an instant impression of Hobson's stereotypical nature and it will appeal to the audience as in the twenty-first century this statement would not be not ...

... broke the conventions of the time, for John Brighouse had previously been married to his second wife's sister; as a result, until the law was later changed, Harold and his sister Hilda were technically illegitimate. As this defies the traditional ...

... husbands who they can "exercise their gifts on" (referring to their "bumptious" behaviour), Maggie enquires whether she is to be found a husband and Hobson callously informs her that (at the age of 30), she is well past marring age ...