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Analyse the relationship between the mother and her son in “ The Son’s Veto” by Thomas Hardy, showing how their behaviour and attitudes were affected by society
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Analyse the relationship between the mother and her son in " the son's veto" by Thomas Hardy, showing how their behaviour and attitudes were affected by society. In the sons veto Thomas Hardy shows the relationship between the mother and the son as very poor. The son Randolph is a very self-centred boy who thinks he is superior and looks at his mother as if she is beneath him. Sophy because of her working class background has no self-esteem and feels inferior to her son but feels a great sense of love and duty towards him. The behaviour between the mother and son was affected by social attitudes at the time. At the end of the 19th century all men looked at the women as inferior. Women had hardly any rights at all and were financially independent. Woman from all classes were looked down upon by all men and had a...
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