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Discuss the characters of Maggie and Hobson in their dramatic context. Comment on how they illustrate and highlight the roles of men and women in their Victorian social context.
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English Coursework 20th Century Drama Discuss the characters of Maggie and Hobson in their dramatic context. Comment on how they illustrate and highlight the roles of men and women in their Victorian social context. The play "Hobson's Choice" is an invigorating character comedy set in Salford, a town near Manchester. It is also a biting commentary on the Victorian values that overhung into the early twentieth century, when it was written. It pits Henry Horatio Hobson, an alcoholic old shop owner, against his forceful daughter Maggie, who is determined to break out of the dull boot shop and the life of genteel spinsterhood that awaits her. "Hobson's Choice" looks at the Victorian class and gender stereotypes, and then blows them to pieces. Hobson himself has clear ideas about the place of women, which he frequently expresses. His view is that "a wife is a handy thing", yet that men who marry are "putting chains...
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