old vs young

02 How successfully does Priestley present the different attitudes between the older and younger generations in An Inspector Calls? Write about: ●

-How Priestley presents the older generation and the younger generation

-how preistley shows his and their attiudes in the way he writes

1) priestley present the older generation as dismissive of the younger generation, not paying attention to what they have to say, set in their beliefs

in mr birlings speech that represents capitalism, speaking down to eric and even gerald, who is his superior, thinks he is above them

"the good hard school of experience"

thinks knowledge can only come with age

metaphor

-links to how in victiorian times, busnesses were often handed down through the generaitons, the cycle continuing

1) also both mr and brs birling trea both their sheila and eric like children, shows they do not believe they are capable of thinking for themselves

"your behaving like an hysterical child"

- link to gender enequality - how women in victorian era were undermined

- hysterical has connotaitons of crazy, ludicrous

simile

2) the younger generation are presneted as willing to speak their differing veiws from their parents, even if they are dissmissed, like eric. however some will only when given the opportunity or with some figure who approves - sheila and the inpector

- shown when eric asks his father "what about war?"

- ittegagortive sentence shows he had a mind…