Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Son's Veto
- Characters
- Sophy
- lame
- "Poor thing"
- Degraded and controlled by son
- Randolph's mother
- Randolph
- Makes mother kneel down and swear away her happiness to protect his position
- "Gentleman" of England
- religious
- arrogant
- Has complete ownership of his mother
- Sam
- tradesman and shop owner
- far better match for Sophy than Randolph
- Themes
- Woman In Society
- highlighted throughout Sophy's story
- A driving motive
- Specific adjective choices quickly puts women into the role of an object, "soft, brown, affectionate orbs..."
- Church
- hypocrisy of the church
- propensity to attract clergy down by social improvement than by Christian virtues
- Narrative Voice
- Omniscient position is adopted throughout, 3rd person, inner thoughts of protagonist
- techniques by Hardy explores his sympathy for Sophy, distances himself from Randolph