Sheila Birling
- Created by: Chloelouiserose
- Created on: 27-11-16 16:23
View mindmap
- Sheila Birling
- Themes
- Younger Generation vs older generations.
- Roles and responsibility (everyone is responsible for everyone)
- Equality of genders (women of 1912 were seen as weak, vulnerable and cheap).
- Many women in 1912 were dominated
- Class System
- Character
- Empathetic- ' I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel a lot worse'
- Shallow-minded- 'Quite Young ? Pretty ?'
- ashamed of her behaviour towards Eva Smith
- Immature/Childish behaviour-'You're Squiffy'
- Context
- Treatment of women in 1912
- Start of the suffragette movement.
- Rebelling against the mans authority. Becoming less submissive towards Gerald
- Many women in 1912 were dominated
- Rebelling against the mans authority. Becoming less submissive towards Gerald
- Language
- After admitting to the inspector that she forced the manager of Milwards to fire Eva, Sheila automatically defends herself by saying 'She was a pretty girl and looked like she could take care of herself'. The word pretty from her defence comment shows the audience that Sheila is jealous of Eva and her looks which is seemed to be considered as one of the seven deadly sins.
- Themes
Comments
No comments have yet been made