Eva Smith
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- Created on: 23-05-18 13:36
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- Eva Smith
- ‘burnt her
out, of course'
- Shock the Birlings into reality
- shocks the capitalist audience into trigger them into
thinking with socialist views as they know the extremity of what can happen due
to their actions
- Used as morality play after WW2 when England was rebuilding: Priestley wanted people to have socialist and less stereotypical views;
- shocks the capitalist audience into trigger them into
thinking with socialist views as they know the extremity of what can happen due
to their actions
- Shock the Birlings into reality
- ‘Smith’ and
‘Renton’
- Smith- Common working surname: there are many people
in England with the same story and suffering as Eva
- Working: she has to scrimp and save to make ends meet: makes the reader pity her
- ‘Renton’- She was ‘rented’ and used by a lot of people eg, Gerald Croft
- Smith- Common working surname: there are many people
in England with the same story and suffering as Eva
- Stops Eric
from stealing
- Goes against Mrs Birling’s(girls of that class) and other capitalist views that proletariat are immoral: although she was deprived + in danger, she didn’t let Eric steal for her
- Eric did steal though, showing: he may be bourgeoisie
but he stole, and the ruling class is flawed
- ‘Blackout in Gretley’ is Priestley’s wartime novel written in 1942 where
he depicts the bourgeoisie worse than the Birlings British aristocracy are more related with
fascism(power in small social elite) rather than democracy/equality
- Goes against Mrs Birling’s(girls of that class) and other capitalist views that proletariat are immoral: although she was deprived + in danger, she didn’t let Eric steal for her
- ‘Blackout in Gretley’ is Priestley’s wartime novel written in 1942 where
he depicts the bourgeoisie worse than the Birlings British aristocracy are more related with
fascism(power in small social elite) rather than democracy/equality
- When she committed suicide, child died as well
- The bourgeoisie will suffer similar losses such as the Birling's(a child) if they don't help the proletariat
- Shows the desperation proletariat have: kill themselves
- ‘burnt her
out, of course'
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