An Inspector Calls Themes: Men and Women
- Created by: abipritchard
- Created on: 21-05-16 16:38
View mindmap
- Men and Women
- Women: supposedly obsessed with "pretty clothes", shopping and weddings (Sheila gazes adoringly at her ring)
- Sheila gets Eva sacked because of pride, vanity and jealousy -stereotypical female traits in the play
- "Clothes mean something different to a woman. Not just something to wear - and not only something to make 'em look prettier - but - well, a sort of sign or token of their self-respect"
- Men: preoccupied with work and public affair.
- "The miners came out on strike"
- Gerald feels it's "his duty" to rescue Daisy from the womanizer in the Palace Variety Theatre
- Gerald is allowed to sleep around before his marriage
- Sheila isn't. There are different rules for men and women
- Birling says that even in his day they "broke out and had a bit of fun sometimes"
- Gerald is allowed to sleep around before his marriage
- Eva and Sheila try to rebel and break out of the roles they've been given
- Instead of relying on a man to save her, Eva refuses to take Eric's stolen money
- Sheila interrupts and challenges her family at different times - apart from the Inspector
- Eva/Daisy questioned the decision of her boss instead of quietly accepting it
- Sheila states her own opinions, not those she is "supposed" to have
- "That's what's important - and not whether a man is a police inspector or not" She's learnt to think for herself
- By the end: Birling, Eric and Gerald get weaker as Sheila gets stronger. Priestley does this to challenge the audience's view of women at the time
- Gerald's rejected by Sheila
- Birling is "panic stricken" and weaker than he proposed himself to be
- The whole night has slowly undermined his authority
- Sheila voices her own opinions
- Eric is revealed to be nervous and lazy, with a drinking problem
- Women were seen as men's property and inferior. The only way they could raise their social status was to marry a wealthy man
- "Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening"
- "As if she were an animal, a thing, not a person"
- Women were seen as weak and ignorant
- They're protected against "unpleasant" and "disturbing" things
- "I protest against the way in which my daughter, a young, unmarried girl, is being dragged into this"
- "Sheila, take your mother along to the drawing room"
- Sheila is accused of being hysterical - a state often associated with women at that time
- Women: supposedly obsessed with "pretty clothes", shopping and weddings (Sheila gazes adoringly at her ring)
Comments
No comments have yet been made