Mr Birling

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  • Mr Birling Quotes
    • Patronising
      • 'They're over tiered.'
      • “Just let me finish Eric. You’ve a lot to learn yet.”
        • Generation differences. He won’t even let his own son speak- he is being patronising and domineering over his own son.
          • 'They're over tiered.'
    • Capitalist
      • "A man has to make his own way"
        • He feels that people can only be responsible for themselves. He thinks that if people fail then it is their own fault
      • "Hard-headed practical man of business"
      • “Rubbish! If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth.”
        • UntiReferring to socialists and lower class being greedy if you give them sympathy and everything they ask for.tled
    • Selfish
      • "I think she only had herself to blame."
    • Eva Smith
      • 'I dont understand why you should come here?'
        • He argues that his involvement with Eva was small and unimportant so it couldn't have lead to her death
      • “This girl. Eva Smith, was one of them, she'd had a lot to say – far too much – so she had to go.”
        • UntiReferring to socialists and lower class being greedy if you give them sympathy and everything they ask for.tled
    • Judgemental
      • "Girls of that class'
        • Assuming that girls of lower class have no moral rights.
    • Dramatic irony
      • “Titanic….and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.”
      • “Germans don’t want war.”
        • All the audience know that theese facts are not true which makes Mr Birling look stupid.
          • “Titanic….and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.”

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