Sheila Birling context and analysis
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- Sheila Birling
- 1912 woman had no vote
- Sheila learns inspectors lesson but cannot act on it because she has no political voice or social power
- Even if she was to act as though "we are all one body," it makes little difference to society because she has no vote and being female she cannot influence society.
- Cannot become independant from her parents except through marriage
- Financially and socially Sheila will not be able to find a better husband. Priestly implies that Sheila cannot resist marrying him because she has no other reasonable alternative. A TRAGEDY
- Sheila learns inspectors lesson but cannot act on it because she has no political voice or social power
- patriarchal society
- Suggests she is forced by the patriarchal society to marry Gerald
- Gerald is at least "honest" about his affair and his regretfulness sets him aside from any other upperclass male who would deceive her
- Financially and socially Sheila will not be able to find a better husband. Priestly implies that Sheila cannot resist marrying him because she has no other reasonable alternative. A TRAGEDY
- Second phone call suggests that they haven't learnt their lesson
- Two deaths coincide with two wars which suggests that if the rich capitalists and the governing classes had learnt their lessons the second world war wouldn't happen and neither would the second death
- Suggests she is forced by the patriarchal society to marry Gerald
- She has learnt the inspector's lesson BUT IT COUNTS FOR NOTHING
- THE INSPECTORS PROXY once he leaves
- Inspectors parting words "if men do not" shows that it is MEN WHO HAVE TAKEN THE COUNTRY TO WAR and it is MEN WHO ARE THE DANGER TO SOCIETY by abusing their power
- patriarchal society
- Suggests she is forced by the patriarchal society to marry Gerald
- Gerald is at least "honest" about his affair and his regretfulness sets him aside from any other upperclass male who would deceive her
- Second phone call suggests that they haven't learnt their lesson
- Two deaths coincide with two wars which suggests that if the rich capitalists and the governing classes had learnt their lessons the second world war wouldn't happen and neither would the second death
- Suggests she is forced by the patriarchal society to marry Gerald
- patriarchal society
- Inspectors parting words "if men do not" shows that it is MEN WHO HAVE TAKEN THE COUNTRY TO WAR and it is MEN WHO ARE THE DANGER TO SOCIETY by abusing their power
- Priestley's message was that women in 1912 were not enfranchised so they could not make a difference but now that they have the vote they are able to make a difference but he is trying to show what kind of difference women can make
- 1912 woman had no vote
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