Character first impressions
- Created by: NiamhyMcWhir
- Created on: 18-12-16 11:32
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- First Impressions
- Arthur Birling
- A strong minded business man
- Family based but seems to care more about his business than his own daughters engagement
- Embodies capitalist ideals
- A 'portentous man'
- Perhaps he is greedy and wants to behave solemnly as if he knows what he is talking about
- 'rather provincial in his speech'
- He has risen to his social standing instead of born into it
- Suggests that he has the ability to sympathise is lower class and understand their limitations
- He has risen to his social standing instead of born into it
- Middle 50s, well mannered, head of the table.
- A strong minded business man
- Sybil Birling
- 'A rather cold woman'
- Unlikely to me liked my audience as suggests little sympathy to others
- Implies she isn't close with her children
- Socially more superior to the rest of the family
- Has a strong sense of social etiquette and social perceptions. Which she pushes onto Shiela
- Unlike her husband, she was born into the higher class
- 'her husband's social superior'
- Doesn't understand life of a lower class
- Makes her seem rather judgmental
- 'A rather cold woman'
- Sheila Birling
- Rather childlike (bickers with brother a lot and calls parents mummy and daddy)
- Presents her as less polite and lovely
- Spoilt and naive
- 'A pretty girl'
- Suggets she has is all going for her. Money and looks. Likely she didn't have to work very hard for it
- 'very pleased with life and rather excited'
- Makes audience dislike her more and seen as spoilt and doesn't necessarily appreciate her good fortune
- 'A pretty girl'
- Doesn't like her mother's idea of how a woman should act
- Rather childlike (bickers with brother a lot and calls parents mummy and daddy)
- Eric Birling
- Drunk, silly and attention seeking
- Isn't afraid of expressing his opinion
- 'not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive'
- Doesn't really know his place, only just learning how to behave as an adult and still a little childish.
- Gerald Croft
- 'About 30'
- Ability to please both generations
- Sensible, a little older than Sheila and Eric
- Understands about business and social etiquette
- Acts as the higher class he his but also acts desperate to please others, especially Mr Birling
- 'attractive chap'
- he will move through society with ease and is likely to get what he wants
- 'too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man- about- town.'
- Knows and understands his place. is fashionable but masculine.
- As if he is the perfect gentleman.
- Symolises that even the perfect man has flaws and responability in the play.
- As if he is the perfect gentleman.
- Knows and understands his place. is fashionable but masculine.
- 'About 30'
- Edna
- the underdog
- gives no opinion and does as she is told
- Represents the lower class
- Inspector Goole
- Light changes as he enters. Their life changes.
- Going to disturb the family dynamics
- Blunt, unimpressed and determined
- Not afraid to challenge characters and ask the had questions.
- 'Goole'
- Ghost like and unusual, scary and may suggest he isn't real.
- 'Impression of massivness, solidity and purpose-fulness'
- Tricolon suggests that he can overpower all the characters and that he is intimidating.
- Light changes as he enters. Their life changes.
- Arthur Birling
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