Mrs Birling
- Created by: Eviebensley
- Created on: 08-03-20 21:24
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- Mrs Birling
- A rather cold woman and her husband's superior
- Foreshadows unsympathetic nature, feels no remorse for her actions.
- Married below her status - unusual for a 1912 society, only married for the money.
- Girls of that class
- 'that' - determiner - snobbish + disgusted, she feels a sense of superiority.
- 'that' is italicized, generalises the working class, making a clear distinction between herself + lower classes.
- I did nothing I'm ashamed of
- Feels no remorse or regret over her actions, no acceptance of social responsibility.
- Demonstrates her hubris + how she doesn't see her the effect of her actions.
- Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility
- DI - Eric is the father of the child but too ignorant + self-obsessed to realize.
- Passes all the blame onto Eric, feels she has done nothing wrong but Eva should've relied on the father
- I didn't know it was you
- 'you' is italicized. emphasising if she'f have known it was Eric. she would've helped.
- Shows her hubris + arrogance and privilege, only feels a sense of remorse once she finds out she is related to the child.
- I was the only one of you who didn't give in to him
- Pride + arrogance, triumphant that she didn't 'give' into him and embrace the truth + accept responsibility
- Shows she still doesn't accept any responsibility, even after being made aware of the consequence of her actions
- deserving cases
- Feels she has the right to judge who deserves support and who doesn't - dehumanizes lower class
- Victorian idea of desrving and undeserving (of no use to the upper class) poor
- As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money
- Misjudges Eva. assumes that as she's poor, she's only interested in the money, not camaraderie
- Hubristic + condescending tone towards the lower class. Distances himself from them, full of disgust + distaste
- Really the things you girls pick up these days
- Protecting young femininity, takes on a snobbish tone. Shows the generational divide as she doesn't truly know her children .
- Make sure he's compelled to confess in public his responsibility
- DI - Eric is the father, too pompous to accept it, throws him under the bus
- Increases dramatic tension - becomes obvious to the audience that Eric is the father, but not to her, as incriminates him further
- A rather cold woman and her husband's superior
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