AIC CHARACTERS Flashcards
Mr Birling ✈️
PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITIC= mr b represents the ego
✈️prosperous manufacturer= IMMEDIATELY WARY as audience aware of manufacturers profit during ww1&2. Emphasised by ‘him, himself, his’
✈️ Hard headed
= metaphorically indifferent to class divide and foreshadows unwillingness to change. Self proclaimed= justified FUALTS IN UPPER CLASS IDEALS
✈️unsinkable. Absolutely unsinkable. Metaphorical ignorance to no one can come for them. Audience sees weakness as know titanic will sink= IGNORANCE
✈️ lower costs, higher prices
= exploitation and immortality, AND disparity between classes. Capitalism is all about material gain
✈️ IF TIME ‘amused’= belittles others opinions
Mrs Birling 👛
PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITIC= EGO
👛 cold= apathy, foreshadows behaviour and lack of flexibility of mind
👛 a girl of that sort = CAPITALISM CAUSES MORAL CORRUPTION. Girl is dehumanisation and generalisation= animalistic. Further shown through ‘perfectly justified’
👛 prejudiced me against her= JUDICIUM= legal proceedings and criminal.
👛 Sheila! Arthur! Eric!= use of punctuation shows her desperation to keep immorality inside. SUBCONSCIOUS EFFECTS OF CAPITALISM, contradicts human mortality
👛 looks expectantly at Arthur. FEMINIST CRITIC= reliant to subvert from stereotypes
Sheila 💍
💍 ‘mummy’ ‘daddy’ colloquialism for her ignorance and inability to see reality of life. JUXT EVA who lost parents. She calls them mother and father later.
💍 half serious, half playful= juxtaposition is effects of capitalism CONT MORALITY. foreshadows change
💍 ‘stop it’ imperatives= strength of capitalism. FEMINIST CRITIC= RELUCTANT TO EMBRACE A SUBMISSIVE ROLE. Recognises that it doesn’t matter whether the inspector was real or not. All behaved immorally. BIRTH WELFARE STATE
💍 ‘what he made me feel’ mirrors inspector= understands role within society as an evangelist of change. Embraces empathetic mindset. Distances herself from parents. Ps message= distain towards society who exploits the poor. PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITIC= ego»_space; superego
Gerald Croft 🍺
🍺 ‘is this the one you wanted me to have’. Control+ restricted “ring” dual symbol of the eternal love for one another, but also the imprisonment within a women herself due to the religious connotation of a Christian society being very popular during the Edwardian era.
🍺 ‘man about town’= MARXIST CRITIC= euphemism for immoral behaviour of Men in Edwardian England. Privileged and typical, metaphorically builds barrier up OR relate.
🍺 suicide business literally profit seeking enterprise= WILLINGNESS TO EXPLOIT, in work and sexually. ‘Install her’ dehumanise like a machine. PSYCHOANALYTIC= EGO. Manipulation shows his abuse of power
🍺 AUDIENCE MEANT TO CONDEMN GERALD. Could be sorry, ‘distressed’ + after a shop, something about a strike too»_space; no proof it was really the same girl. hasn’t learnt a thing
Inspector Goole ⛳️
⛳️ ‘carefully, weighty’ juxtapose Mr b colloquial and belittling opinions and exploits insignificance of capitalism. Lexical fields of size show extent of strength of overall message. Could also be an allusion to the magnitude of weight of guilt.
⛳️ shows that capitalism is a crime ‘i wouldn’t know where to draw the line’. Capitalist exploitation is the crime. Irony as Eric stole and raped. The boundaries are blurred. Reflect on their own behaviour and exploits the belief that upper class ideals don’t make them untouchable PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITIC= SUPEREGO
⛳️friendless, penniless, desperate, and burned her inside out. Grotesque imagery= grotesque treatment of the poor. Used to create sense of uegency= HISTORICIST CRITIC= ROLE AS DRAMATIC CATALYST
⛳️ structures play carefully, and heightens drama purposefully, with entries and exits carefully timed. Reflects overall exploitation of poor, creating empathy. Reaches dramatic climax in ‘fire blood and anguish’. Death is a result of ignorance, and foreshadowing war. Alternatively, lexical field of hell
ERIC CROFT 🥃
🥃half shy half assertive= CAPITALISM CONTRACTS HUMAN MORALITY. Foreshadows flexibility of kind despite oppression from capitalist parents
🥃when a chap easily turns nasty= uncomfortable disturbing imagery designed to shock the audience that upper class man have no problem exploiting vulnerable class women. MARXIST= euphemism for immoral behaviour of men
🥃she was a good sport= extent of dehumanisation, used as an enjoyable activity to pass the time. EXTENDED METAPHOR THAT capitalism corrupts. PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITIC= EGO
🥃then you killed her. She came to me to protect you and you turned her away- yes you killer her and the child she’d have had too’- POLYASYNDETIC LIST= shock at overall treatment of Eva. PSYCHOANALYTIC= transformed into superego
