An Inspector Calls -Mr Birling
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- An Inspector Calls: Mr Birling
- Position in society
- Middle-upper class. Married up from lower class
- From a lower class background (working class)
- "hard-headed practical man of business"
- "I'm a public man"
- Expects respect from others
- A member of the town council, Lord Mayor and magistrate
- Man with money, power and social position but no sense of social justice
- What socialists like Priestley felt was wrong with society
- Capitalist view
- "a man has to make his own way- has to look after himself- and his family too of course"
- Middle-upper class. Married up from lower class
- Responsibility
- Capitalist view
- "a man has to make his own way- has to look after himself- and his family too of course"
- Represent the older generation
- More unaware and refuse the ideas of change
- Believes his status makes him exempt from taking responsibilities to the working class
- ingrained prejudices
- Capitalist view
- Dramatic irony
- When the audience is aware of something that the characters are not
- "I say there isn't a chance of war"
- The audience know here were two world wars
- The Titanic is "unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable"
- The audience know that the Titanic sinks
- "I say there isn't a chance of war"
- When the audience is aware of something that the characters are not
- Selfish character
- Worries about his reputation and how he looks
- "There'll be a public scandal"
- Believes socialist ideas that stress the importance of responsibility and community are "nonsense"
- Worries about his reputation and how he looks
- Description
- "rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech"
- From a lower class background (working class)
- "rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech"
- Position in society
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