An Inspector Calls: Mr Birling (1)
The first of two mindmaps exploring Mr Birling's character and personality, and its importance to the play.
- Created by: Shannon Tennant-Smith - Team GR
- Created on: 07-06-13 15:17
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- Mr Birling
- Self-made business man
- Traditionalist
- Follows conservative values
- Social Climber
- Concerned with appearance
- Self-confessed 'hard-headed business man
- Money and image are important
- Traditionalist
- Status
- Place in society to influence others and evade the law
- Warns the inspector; threatens to report him and mentions a senior officer
- Married well; his wife is socially superior
- Feels socially inadequate; confides in Gerald about the knighthood
- Sheila's engagement is important as it is good for business
- It is a transaction; everything in life is about business
- 'Crofts and Birlings working together for lower costs and higher prices'
- Extending his reach and influences within society
- 'happiest day of my life'
- Place in society to influence others and evade the law
- 'Family man'
- Against community
- 'A man should look after his own'
- 'Like bees in a hive'
- Eric: 'not the sort... go to if you were in trouble'
- Ironic; opposite of what his father thinks
- No regard for individuals; only concerned with respectability and social standing
- Ironic; opposite of what his father thinks
- Against community
- Structural device
- First and last character to speak
- Shows status; important to the play
- Has to have the last word
- Stage directions reflect his opulent lifestyle
- 'heavy-looking'
- 'Portentious'
- Shows status; important to the play
- Ex-mayor
- asserts his status over inspector
- Believes he is untouchable
- First and last character to speak
- Self-made business man
- Smug
- Self-made business man
- Traditionalist
- Follows conservative values
- Social Climber
- Concerned with appearance
- Self-confessed 'hard-headed business man
- Money and image are important
- Traditionalist
- Self-made business man
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