Mr Birling character plan
- Created by: abic1
- Created on: 23-05-16 14:32
View mindmap
- Arthur Birling Key Quotes
- rather provincial in his speech
- rom a lower class background, now middle class and prejudiced against working class
- means a tremendous lot to me
- obsessed with money and business and his own social standing. He is only thinking about the benefits of Sheila marrying Gerald for him.
- Lower costs, higher prices
- cruel, profiteering & ruthless
- absolutely unsinkable
- Priestly portrays him as an arrogant, brash and idiotic character on purpose
- isn’t a chance of war
- the audience would have lost friends and family in both wars
- Knighthood
- move him up a small notch in the social hierarchy of Brumley society
- seem to be a nice well-behaved family
- smug as what they do not realise is how true this is, hidden secrets
- man has to make his own way
- selfish capitalist philosophy
- Cranks
- Socialist thinkers are ridiculed by Birling for wanting to help the weakest in society
- Bees in a hive-community and all that nonsense
- Birling and Inspector diametrically set up having opposite perceptions
- I refused, of course
- selfish, thinks his actions are justified
- yes, yes horrid business
- doesn’t care about working class.
- How do you get on with our Chief constable, Colonel Roberts?
- attempt to threaten the inspector
- You’re the one I blame for this
- hasn’t learnt his lesson, or changed. Refuses any responsibility
- I was certain for a knighthood
- only concerned about himself
- rather provincial in his speech
Comments
No comments have yet been made