Hobson’s Choice

9 Jim: … There’s things called settlements. Hobson: Settlements? Jim: Aye. You’ve to bait your hook to catch fish, Henry.

How is Victorian life presented in Hobson’s Choice ?

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Maggie: I’ll have my sisters there when I get wed. It’s at one o’clock at St Philip’s.

Explain the significance of Maggie’s relationship with her sisters in the play.

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

9 Hobson: Look here, Maggie, you’re talking straight and I’ll talk straight and all. When I’m set I’m set. You’re coming here.

How is conflict important in the play?

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Stage direction: He is a lanky fellow, about thirty, not naturally stupid but stunted mentally by a brutalized childhood.

Explain the significance of Willie Mossop in Hobson’s Choice.

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

9 Hobson: I’m warning you your conduct towards your parent’s got to change.

Explain the relationship between Maggie and Hobson in the play.

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Maggie: You can afford five hundred pounds and you’re going to pay five hundred pounds.

How is money important in Hobson’s Choice ?

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

9 Tubby: But I’m not a rash man, and I’m not going to be responsible to the master with his temper so nowty and all since Miss Maggie went.

Explore the presentation of men in Hobson’s Choice.

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Willie: I’m not ambitious that I know of.

Maggie: No. But you’re going to be. I’ll see to that.

How is ambition significant in the play?

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

9 Hobson: Go and get my dinner served and talk less. Go on now. I’m not in right temper to be crossed.

How is control significant in Hobson’s Choice ?

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Willie: I’ll take you into partnership and give you your half-share on the condition you’re sleeping partner.

In what ways does Hobson’s Boot Shop change in the play?

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

9 Maggie: I’m thirty and I’m marrying Willie Mossop. And now I’ll tell you my terms.

In what ways are decisions significant in Hobson’s Choice ?

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Hobson: Wages? Do you think I pay wages to my own daughters? I’m not a fool.

Explore the importance of women in the play .

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

9 Hobson: See here, Maggie. I set the hours at this house. It’s one o’clock dinner because I say it is.

Explore the significance of the Hobson family in the play.

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Hobson: I’m British middle class and proud of it.

In what ways is social class presented in the play?

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

9 Maggie: He’s not so well, Alice. The doctor says one of us must come and live here to look after him.

How is responsibility important in Hobson’s Choice ?

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(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Vickey: Yes. But we’ve got to be careful, Alice. She mustn’t have things too much her way.

Explain the significance of Alice and Vickey in the play .

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9 Willie: I’ll be getting back to my stool, Miss Maggie. (Moves to trap.)

Maggie: (stopping him): You’ll go back when I’ve done with you.

Explore the relationship between Maggie and Willie in Hobson’s Choice.

You must refer to the context of the play in your answer.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)

Maggie: I think Hobson and Mossop is best.

Hobson: His name on my sign-board?

Willie: The best I’ll do is this: Mossop and Hobson.

(includes 8 marks for the range of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, and accurate use of spelling and punctuation)