Age and Generation
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- Age and Generation
- Mr Birling
- 'you've a lot to learn'
- 'Now, Shelia, I'm not defending him. But you must understand a lot of young men -'
- 'don't interfere father' - Sheila
- 'If you've nothing more sensible than that to say, Shelia you'd better keep quiet'
- 'they're over-tired'
- 'Now you three young people, just listen to this - and remember what I’m telling you now'
- 'You youngsters just remember what I said'
- 'just let me finish, Eric. You’ve a lot to learn yet'
- 'Now look at the pair of them - the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke
- 'I simply don’t understand your attitude'
- Sheila
- 'I think it was a mean thing to do'
- 'mummy' ---> 'mother'
- 'Mother, I think it was cruel and vile'
- 'I behaved badly, I know I did'
- 'I behaved badly too. I know I did I'm ashamed of it.'
- 'you don't seem to have learnt anything'
- 'it's you two who are being childish - trying not to face the facts.
- 'everything we said had happened really had happened'
- 'I expect you’ve done things you’re ashamed of too'
- Eric
- 'why shouldn't they try for higher wages, we try for higher prices'
- 'I'd have let her stay'
- 'I'm ashamed pf both of you as well - yess both of you'
- '(cutting in)'
- 'you're all pretending now that nothing's really happened at all'
- 'Thats what I feel, Eric. And it's what they don't seem to understand.'
- 'we all helped kill her'
- 'The money’s not the important thing. It’s what happened to the girland what we all did to her that matters
- Mrs Birling
- 'silly boy'
- 'therefore, you're quite wrong to suppose I shall regret what I did.
- 'hysterical child'
- 'Sheila, don’t talk nonsense'
- CONTEXT
- Priestley presents
- ?life experiences? and the ?era ?you grow up in ?affects your morals and political identity?.
- Older generation= stuck in their old ways?, used to their comforts ?and ?conservative values?. Parent refuse to ?be accept responsibility?, caring only for selves.
- Younger generation= curious ?and ?compassionate?. Quick to rectify their ignorance?.
- Suggests ?the younger generations should learn from the mistakes of their elders in order to create a more peaceful and progressive future for Britain?.
- Lost generation
- born between ?1883 and 1900
- reached adulthood during or just after the end of the First World War?
- Eric and Sheila
- values inherited ?from elders= no longer ?relevant?. Others tried to return to ?‘normalcy’?
- members found everyday life ?materialistic ?and? emotionally meaningless
- Priestley presents
- Mr Birling
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