Mr Birling
- Created by: Chloelouiserose
- Created on: 09-11-17 18:21
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- Mr Birling
- Character
- Pompous
- views lower classes especially women as 'cheap labour'
- money driven -structure of sentences AO2
- presented as foolish- dramatic irony.
- "Germans don't want war
- tries to intimidate the inspector 'I was Lord Mayor'.
- Likes to promote his capitalist views (very opinionated)
- Isn't responsible for his actions.
- Stubborn, refuses to change his views, only presents to have mortality when there is threat of a public scandal.
- 'I'd give thousands'
- Structure
- Use of dashes in his speech shows his intellectual weak ideas.
- The arrival of the inspector (sharp ring) repeated at end to show the full circle.
- Relationships
- Mrs Birling
- She is his social superior She reprimands him for complimentin the cook
- Eric and Sheila
- Lacks value for his children.
- You're not the type of father a chap can talk to"
- Doesn't care about Sheila's happiness only about business
- Lacks value for his children.
- Inspector
- Tries to intimidate him.
- Gerald
- Tries to show off 'port your fathers drink'
- Mrs Birling
- Themes
- Responsibility
- Lies/ hypocrisy
- Generation gap
- Class system
- Women and attitudes towards women
- Context
- Class system and power in 1912 and how that would have changed by 1945
- Politicalideologies- socialism/capitalism
- Treatment of women
- Character
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