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Explore Hardy's approach to the issue of the class in 'The Withered Arm', Absent mindedness in a Parish Choir' and 'The Son's of Veto' noting the effects of social, cultural or historical influences on the text.
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Explore Hardy's approach to the issue of the class in 'The Withered Arm', Absent mindedness in a Parish Choir' and 'The Son's of Veto' noting the effects of social, cultural or historical influences on the text. In the Withered Arm there is indication of an issue with class status straight away, as you start the short story there is immediately a issue with class, this starts with a conversion about Farmer Lodges new wife to be, all the milking maids are trying to work out who she is, "He do bring home his bride to-morrow, I hear..." and they what to no what class she is in. Farmer Lodge had a relationship with Rhoda Brook, a milking maid, but that did not last because he was higher class and she was working class. In the time this story was set it was unacceptable for a man of Farmer Lodge's class to...
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