an inspector calls themes - stereotypical women
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- Created on: 13-04-19 10:49
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- An Inspector Calls Themes (stereotypes)
- Women are supposed to be obsessed with "pretty clothes", shopping and weddings
- women are also protected against "unpleasant & disturbing" things- for example when mrs birling and shiela left the dining room so that the men could speak.
- sheila gets eva sacked because of pride, vanity and jealousy which are some of the stereotypical traits that females aquired in the play.
- sheila is accused of being hysterical- a state which is often associated with women at the time.
- mr birling tries to send shiela away when the inspector arrives- he thinks that she should not have to listen to this unpleasant conversation.
- The play was set during a patriarchal society which means that men ruled women, made decisions for them & treated them like property.
- Upper class women were also expected to be obedient & well educated because it would give a good impression on their father and husband.
- upper class women were expected to wear the nicest clothes to show off their husbands wealth.
- women were also expected to go to events and throw parties to show off wealth and make their husband look good.
- Priestley did not only chose a lower class person he chose a lower class WOMAN to emphasise the inequalities and how different they were treated.
- Eva smith only had a few options to improve her life as she was of a lower class
- throughout the play male characters use & dismiss eva due to her low class status, people think she id corrupt because of her class so this is seen as okay.
- gerald uses eva for sex because she is young and pretty (and because he knows she wont tell anyone because of her class)
- Eric forces himself on Eva- he threatens that he will ruin her if she doesn't let him have sex with her.
- mrs birling believes "girls of that class" dont have morals and so turns her away from the charity
- Eric forces himself on Eva- he threatens that he will ruin her if she doesn't let him have sex with her.
- mr birling sees women as expendable- he feels that he can just hire others after he gets rid of some who disrupt his business.
- by the end of the play the male characters are weaker than shiela as she gets stronger- priestley does this to challenge the audiences view on women at the time
- Gerald is rejected by Sheila and Eric is revealed to be lazy with a drinking problem and Birling has slowly undermined his authority and sheila voices her own opinions and thinks for herself.
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