Hyacinth Bucket
Hyacinth Bucket | |
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Bruce (brother-in-law)
Kylie (great-niece) |
Hyacinth Bucket (née Walton) a.k.a. The Bucket Woman is a fictional character in the
Character synopsis
Hyacinth is a
The character's creator, Roy Clarke, has called her the "least invented of all the characters I've found in my head":
So I knew my Hyacinths and I knew I had to write my own. They fascinated me. They were hilarious in their pretensions, so marvellously unaware of the real impressions they were making, and yet somehow so up front in their crusade to be superior that it was brave.[2]
Hyacinth is married to Richard Bucket, and they live at 22 Blossom Avenue, in a bungalow which Hyacinth refers to as "The Residence" when sending letters. In an attempt to make callers think she is wealthy enough to employ domestic staff, she repeatedly answers the telephone with, "The Bouquet residence; the lady of the house speaking." This false accent had previously been used for
As revealed in the 2016 prequel, Young Hyacinth, Hyacinth is the eldest of the four floral-named Walton sisters: in birth order, Hyacinth, Daisy, Violet, and Rose.
Hyacinth's social class has been the subject of much discussion. Renée Dickason suggests that "Hyacinth Bucket is lower-middle class and thus close in status to the viewing audience", while Paul Roscoe argues that:
With each episode, Hyacinth struggles to transcend the trappings of her lower-class status and relations, only to be brought low and her pretensions to middle-class status ridiculed. For the show's middle- and upper-middle-class audience, the comedic pivot is the many ways and multiple occasions that Hyacinth is slapped down for failing to recognize her position in the status hierarchy.[3]
Dickason concludes that Hyacinth is a "relatively rare example of a wholly unsympathetic weak
References
- ^ ISBN 9781476623122. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
- ^ Webster, Nick (17 February 2016). "Creator of Keeping Up Appearances on the real life Hyacinth Buckets". The Mirror. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
- ISBN 9781108836043. Retrieved 22 August 2022.