Analysis Of Act One - Speech

Question 1

Birlings having engagement party

Answer 1

• birling is confident about future for family and business.makes predictions for future.audience of 1946 knows what’s coming.
• says conflict between workers and bosses will come to nothing.but many strikes took place between 1912 and 1945.general strike halted country for nine days -1926
• says titanic is unsinkable
• Eric asks if there will be a war in Germany.arthur denies it.ww1 starts just two years after
• when audience know something characters don’t it’s called dramatic irony.uses this to make him seem over confident