Sheila Birling
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- Created on: 04-05-16 15:26
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- She is angry with her parents in Act 3 for trying to "pretend that nothing much has happened." Sheila says "It frightens me the way you talk:"
- she cannot understand how they cannot have learnt from the evening in the same way that she has. She is seeing her parents in a new, unfavourable light.
- Character Impression
- She is very perceptive: she realises that Gerald knew Daisy Renton from his reaction, the moment the Inspector mentioned her name.
- end of Act II, she is the first to realise Eric's part in the story.
- Significantly, she is the first to wonder who the Inspector really is, saying to him, 'wonderingly', "I don't understand about you."
- end of Act II, she is the first to realise Eric's part in the story.
- Sheila Birling
- Response To The Inspector
- Key Message/ Theme
- Sheila also displays a free-thinking spiritedness that is characteristic of the suffragette (women's rights) movement of that period
- Sheila is sympathetic to the ideals of socialism: she expresses horror that poor women like Eva are seen simply as "cheap labour" and not as people.
- Understands the inspectors message, that theres is a need for justice in society,this helps to makes her a more sympathetic character
- She is very perceptive: she realises that Gerald knew Daisy Renton from his reaction, the moment the Inspector mentioned her name.
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