Sheila Birling
- Created by: Eviebensley
- Created on: 09-03-20 18:21
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- Sheila Birling
- a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited
- Presents her as naive and innocent, with a sense of entitlement
- She is ignorant to the coming events and social responsibility , unaware of the consequences of her actions
- But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people
- 'People' is italicized- showing her sympathy, she humanizes them whereas Sybil degrades them
- She still has a sense of respect for the lower class, has the potential for change + more open-minded than parents.
- So I'm really responsible?
- Ready to accept the consequences + social responsibility, unlike Arthur
- Sympathetic + emotional response, juxtoposed to her father's reaction
- Why - you fool - he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he know that we don't know yet. You'll see. You'll see.
- 'He knows' is italicized, showing her intelligence as she is the only one who understands the inspectors intentions
- She's observant, takes on a triumphant tone, waiting for her suspicions to be proved right
- And if you really love me, you couldn't have said that
- Their relationship is toxic and beginning to crack, Gerald only married her for money not love
- 'couldn't' expresses necessity of statement, increases dramatic tension between what her family feels is best + her own independence.
- I behaved badly too. I know I did. I;m ashamed of it
- Accepts social responsibility + consequences of her actions, contrasting her previous self.
- She feels guilty + embarrassed because of her actions.
- And I know I'm to blame - and I'm desperately sorry - but I can't - I won't believe it's simply my fault in the end she - she committed suicide.
- Fragmentation of speech + inability to form sentences shows she struggle to comprehend her own actions.
- She is truly sorry + remorseful for her actions, doesn't want to believe she is solely responsible.
- You don't seem to have learnt anything
- Generational divide - older feels as if they've done nothing wrong but younger accepts responsibility + feels ashamed
- Between us we drove that girl to commit suicide.
- Accepts her actions have affected others and that we are responsible for other people
- He's giving us rope - so that we'll hang ourselves
- Metaphorical - characters are incriminating themselves, exposing the truth + their own guilty actions
- He mean I'm getting hysterical now
- Hysteria seen as women over-reacting and being dramatic + helpless.
- Exposing how men patronize women and seemingly cannot handle the truth
- She hands him the ring
- Regaining her independence, taking control of her own life. She refuses his protection + chivalry
- The ring is used as a dramatic device, symbolic movement of her relationship becoming irreparable.
- a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited
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