An Inspector Calls Themes: Family Life
- Created by: abipritchard
- Created on: 21-05-16 11:40
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- Family Life
- Family members were expected to know their role and accept it
- The parents were in charge of the family and the children were obedient
- Men were expected to: work to support their family, protect women
- "When you're married you'll realize that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend all their time and energy on their business."
- "A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family of course"
- Women were expected to: marry into money so they didn't have to work, have children, be social, remain a house wife, obedient and quiet
- Mrs Birling: ""You'll just have to get used to that, just as I had"
- Clear hierarchy in the family is destroyed when the inspector arrives
- Inspector: ("cutting through, massively")
- Without their parent's influence, Sheila and Eric can speak for themselves
- Eric says his mother "doesn't understand anything"
- He also says that Mr Birling "isn't the kind of father a chap would go to for help"
- Sheila & Eric refuse to "go on behaving just as we did"
- They slowly untangle themselves from their traditionalist views
- Family members were expected to know their role and accept it
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