Eric Birling
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- Created on: 09-03-20 19:33
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- Eric Birling
- not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
- Uncomfortable with his own family, not yet found a meaningful position in life
- Juxtaposition of shy and assertive - implies he can be shy with his family but assertive + bold with others
- Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?
- Open-minded, receptive to socialism, he contrasts Mr B's capitalist mindset.
- I hate these fat old tarts around town - the ones I see your respectable friends with
- Exposes hypocrisy of Edwardian society - they had higher class reputations but repressed + hid what they truly got up to.
- Referring to prostitutes - misogynistic language of discourse. Shows sexist attitude of 1912, dehumanizes lower class women, lessens their importance as human beings
- You killed them both - damn you, damn you
- Dismisses his own responsibility towards Eva + the child, cannot comprehend his own role in Eva's death, does have a more compassionate, paternal side.
- He is agitated + distressed, shifting the blame to Mrs B, only taking responsibility of the child once its dead
- You don't understand anything. You never did.
- Estranged from the family, leads a different, secret life to the one he thinks he leads.
- Exposes the lack of intimacy between the family, he feels misunderstood + misinterpreted
- I'm ashamed of you as well - yes, both of you
- Uses Mrs B's words against her, emphasizes his disgust at his parents lack of responsibility + their disregard for lower classes people
- You're beginning to pretend now that nothing's really happened at all. And I can't see it like that.
- Exposes facade of families superior reputation
- Accepts his own responsibility, wants to change his actions + mindset, cannot return to the way things were, affected by the consequences of Eva's death
- We all helped to kill her
- Collective pronoun of we refers to the family as a whole - sees them as all responsible
- Accepts that thier actions have consequences, feels a sense of regret - stand on the side of socialism.
- I wasn't in love with her or anything
- Dismisses the relationship he had with Eva, downplaying it to distance himself from the responsibility + pain of reality
- not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
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