Mrs Birling
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- Created on: 05-02-19 18:42
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- Sybil Birling
- Personality
- She is proud of her social status
- She follows traditional values and etiquette. She has a strong set of beliefs about people's social status which makes her prejudiced.
- She is her husband's "social superior" and keeps reminding the rest of the Birlings about being polite and behaving more like the upper class she is from
- She won't let others boss her around and tells the Inspector that he won't get her to change her mind.
- She lives by strict standards
- She believes that the lower class has lower standards
- This makes her walk straight into the Inspector's trap
- Without realising she condemns her own son because it doesn't cross her mind that she would do anything of the sort
- She doesn't change
- She is self-centred. She doesn't notice Eric's drinking problem and dismisses her daughter's worries about Gerald.
- She won't accept responsibility for her actions and doesn't learn from the Inspector's message
- She isn't very charitable
- She has authority to decide who's "deserving" enough of the Brumley women's charity
- She used her influence to get other members of the board to reject Eva's appeal
- She is offended that Eva uses the Birling name and that she pretends to have the "fine feelings" of a higher social class
- " I used my influence to have it refused" - Act 2
- cruel
- She is proud of her social status
- Quotes
- "When you're married you'll realise" - Act 1
- Traditional
- "I was the only one of you who didn't give in to him!" - Act 3
- proud
- She doesn't change
- She is self-centred. She doesn't notice Eric's drinking problem and dismisses her daughter's worries about Gerald.
- She won't accept responsibility for her actions and doesn't learn from the Inspector's message
- "As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money" - Act 3
- Prejudiced
- She believes that the lower class has lower standards
- " I used my influence to have it refused" - Act 2
- cruel
- "When you're married you'll realise" - Act 1
- Themes
- Social Responsibility - Her charity only helped "deserving" cases traditionally used to distinguish between the poor who physically can't help themselves and those who are undeserving and shouldn't be helped
- Personality
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