Mr Birling An Inspector calls character profile

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  • Created on: 02-12-17 15:40
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  • Mr Birling
    • Involvement with Eva Smith
      • She was employed at his works
        • She and some friends requested a pay rise
          • Mr Birling refused and the workers went on strike
            • When they returned Mr Birling fired Eva Smith
    • Personality
      • Business minded
        • He claims the party is "one of the happiest nights of my life." This is not only because Sheila will be happy, but because a merger with Crofts ltd. will be good for his business.
      • Opinionated
        • "and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable." Is how Mr Birling talks about the Titanic, yet it sank on the 14th April 1912
        • "And I say there isn't a chance of war." he is wrong again as after this time WW1 and WW2 happened.
          • (optimism)Reader begins to doubt Mr Birlings judgement, if he is wrong about the war what else could he be wrong about
          • Optimistic
      • Optimistic
      • Selfish
        • "I've got to cover this up as soon as I can."
          • He seems more worried about his own reputation and social status than anything else he is worried about press coverage instead of the death of Eva Smith.
        • "That a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own."
      • Proud
        • "There's a fair chance that I might find my way on to the next honours list. Just a Knighthood of course."
          • He knows this will move him higher up in the social circles so he wants Gerald to mention it to his mother
    • More about Mr Birling
      • At the start of the play Mr Birling is described as a "heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech."
      • By the end of the play he knows he has lost his chance of a Knighthood, his reputation in Brumley and merging Birling and Co. with Crofts Ltd.
      • However Mr Birling doesn't learn the message given by the play as he cant take responsibility for his role in Eva Smith's death.

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