![]() ![]() There is also the trauma of Simon feeling like he is not worthy of love after having such a cold upbringing. It’s a mix of being both unselfish in the sense that he can’t bear to think of confining Daphne in what he thinks would be a loveless, unhappy marriage because he can’t give her the life he desires and selfish in the sense that he cares more about sticking it to his father than anyone’s happiness, even his own. He feels like marrying her when he can’t give her the life she wants would be a form of ruin for her. He cared about Daphne and knew she wanted a love like her parents and lots of children and felt he could not give that to her as he was focused on keeping his vow to his father. Therefore, Simon vowed to never marry or have children to end the Hastings line as a final act of revenge on his father. As a result of Simon’s stutter, his father was unbearably cruel to him and made his disappointment well known. Simon vowed to end the Hastings bloodline when his father was dying because his father cared more about having an heir and the Hastings bloodline continuing. He was in a panic because ladies of her station certainly didn't know about birth control and from what I've read from historians, men wouldn't necessarily know either. ![]() ![]() She misinterprets his "I can't give you children" because she doesn't know much about reproduction (actually, in this era, no one did) and he didn't say WON'T. Also, (b) she cares for Simon, obviously, and she knows her parents' love was not based on her mother or father's ability to give each other children when it came down to it. (Anthony is a bit protected by his title and his wealth). Daphne is the opposite of Eloise in the trauma of their father's death and the birth of Hyacinth.īut (a) Daphne loves her siblings, and knows her ruination can ruin them (as the eldest daughter) and at the same time, an advantageous marriage will take her sisters far, especially. She wants the relationship she saw her parents have, and he thinks that she will say no if he says no children. To be honest, I think Simon had issues ofc, but that was quite selfish of him at that point as he knew that the price for a woman for being seen in public with a man - not a brother nor a father - was basically ruination and still hoped she’d accept not getting married.ĭaphne wants children. A man could be a rake and still deemed as desirable a woman could not have been perceived as a floozy - that’s what Daphne was telling him, that he’d survive, but she would not she’d rather be childless. Daphne clearly said that social ruin is the ruin biggest of all, of which it’s difficult to return from. The choice he was placing in front of her was either social ruin or the option of never having kids, thus ruining her other “reason” for living. She’d be married, but Simon says that “he wouldn’t be able to provide her with kids”, which in the society at the time would’ve been deemed as the failure on the woman, not the man. Basically, like Daphne said - her only role in life is to marry and have kids. ![]()
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