Responsibility
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- Created on: 21-03-18 09:26
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- Responsibility
- Gerald Croft
- Individualist (helps
- Used Eva - irresponsible
- Supports mr Birling
- Learns very little from inspectors visit.
- Sheila Birling
- Socialist
- Views changed at end.
- ‘I’m to blame- and I’m desperately sorry- but I can’t believe - I won’t believe- it’s simply my fault that in the end she - committed suicide.’
- Eric Birling
- Socialist
- Shown as irresponsible with drinking problem and theft of money. People are more important than wealth.
- ‘You killed her. She came to you to protect me- and you turned her away- yes, and you killed her- and the child she’d have had too- my child- your own grandchild- you killed them both- damn you, damn you.’
- Inspector Goole
- ‘She’d swallowed a lot of strong disenfectant. Burnt herself inside out, of course’
- ‘And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?’
- ‘Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges’
- ‘This girl killed herself- and died a horrible death. But each of you helped kill her. Remember that. Never forget it.but the. I don’t think you ever will.’
- Priestly uses the inspector to promote socialism.
- Eva smith
- No voice- easier to blame like Mrs Birling did .
- Victim of induvidulism.
- Mrs Birling
- Individualism
- Chairwoman of women’s charity.
- Prejudiced towards Eva without meeting her.
- Their views aren’t changed at the end of the play by the inspector.
- ‘She only had herself to blame’
- ‘I don’t suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class-‘
- Every character (apart from Edna) says either responsible or responsibility
- Mr Birling
- Individualist
- Shows no remorse, views are discredited in the play.
- ‘I can’t accept any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?’
- Shows no remorse, views are discredited in the play.
- Priestley uses mr Birling to show the audience how induvidulism goes wrong.
- Individualist
- Stage directions and structure.
- Intense pink light.
- Interrogation. Forces the Birling family to take responsibility and this is why some resist.
- Door bell
- Interrupts mr Birlings individualist monologue to stop his thought process just as you would think before taking responsibility for something , this also tells the audience he is wrong.
- Cyclical structure- those who do not take responsibility need to be revisited.
- Entrances and exits. Eric and Gerald both leave and then come back into the dining room. Eric coming back is a sign of him taking responsibility however Gerald is trying to disprove the inspector showing he learns nothing.
- Intense pink light.
- Gerald Croft
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