AIC analysis Flashcards
The lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inspector arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder
to create atmosphere/tone, symbolic of the inspector interupting their luxuarious life style. also showshow IG shines a light on their capitalist behaviour.
Mr B
A heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech
Characterisation
Shows he indulges because of his working class background and is less aware of social etiquette but looking to pass on his company.
Mrs B
His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husbands social superior
Characterisation
Marries below her social class, has capitalistic views and has no understanding out of her class, lacks empathy
Sheila
a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and very excited
characterisation
shows society focuses on beauty, judged by appearence - not beautiful, younger views but no life purpose - protected by family
Gerald
an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about town
characterisation
a privileged member of the aristocracy, younger but has older values, masciline and affirmative
Eric
in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
characterisation
unsure of himself and finacially dependent but symbollic redemention but doesnt take responsibilty for actions towards eva but has socialist views
Mr B
The Germans don’t wants war. Nobody wants war..silly little war scares
Dramatic irony to undermine / humiliate Mr B, shows arrogance, confidence and undereducation
Mr B
The Titanic .. unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
shows unreliability, and dislikability, he would’ve known people on board, confident - has no doubt
Mr B
a man has to look after himself .. the way some of these cranks talk
individualistic, capitalistic and selfish views, insulting socialists
Mr B
you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive
mocking socialistic idiologies, doesnt want to mix classes, being dissmissive and patronising
IG
an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness .. he speaks carefully, weightily and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person
characterisation
he selects words for impact, has responsibility, uncomfortable. intense, relentless methodical questioning, has authoroitive presesnce
Mr B
It’s my duty to keep labour costs down
characteristation
beleives it’s his moral role of power to exploit his workers
Upper classes
IG
It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it
Shows how dissconnected the upper classes are, contrasts victims and upper classes and how Mr B is too occupied with wealth
metaphor
Upper classes
IG
(dryly) I don’t play golf
not impressed by Mr B connections with authority and arrogance, humiliating him
Eric
Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages
eric is socially aware, contrast Mr B
Old vs young
Sheila
but these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people
recognises people should be treated fairly. humanises and sympathizes workers, adopting socialist ideaologies
Old vs young
Mrs B
Girls of that class/sort
prejedice, builds a wall between classes, diminishing and condesending them, lack of respect
Sheila
You musn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us
Shows sheila socialism - moral welfare + responsibilty,
Gerald
She was very pretty - soft brown hair
Obejectifises Eva, societys conventional beauty standards, make her seem vunerable and tender, common and unremarkable chacteristics,
Gender
Sheila
You were a wonderful fairy prince
traditional gender roles - masculinity, magical, fantastical relationship with eva,
Gender
IG
Public men, have responsibilites as well as privledges.
Socialistic ideaologies of society, shows difference between men and their use of power,
Mrs B
Go and look for the father of the child
Trying to sound authoritive, irony, ideas of individual responsibility and accountability
Eric
I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty
abusing him power over eva, diminishes behaviour as childish stupidity not a crime, colloquiel lang to normalise behaviour, reducing moral responsibility
Eric
She was pretty and a good sport
misogynistic attitudes, women being exploited and objectified, eric is shallow and arrogant
Eric
You’re not the kind of father a chap can go to when he’s in trouble
reveals relationship and lack of emotional connection, shows what Mr B prioritizes
IG
Each of you killed her. Remember her
Summary of his actions, moral message, reflects socialism and class accountability
IG
If she was an animal, a thing, not a person
summaries gender roles, reminds working class auidence of how they’re being treated, dehumanises to something that can be controlled
IG
millions and millions and millions of eva smiths and john smiths
Shows how many people are suffering, universal issues of lower classes,
repetition - triad
IG
they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish
semantic field of war (WW1-imperalistic war), polysyndetic listing - lengthens scale of suffering
Sheila
Between us, we drove that girl to suicide
acknowledges collective guilt and resposibility, confronts the uncomfortable truth, earns redemption, show moral evasion of priviledged and selfobsorbed.
