Eric Flashcards
What is he described as at the start?
Half shy, half assertive
Half not confident, half confident and dominant?
contrasting creates a sense of confusion implying he is secretive.
Encourages the audience to see him negatively as they should the patriarchal high class society. - Reject capitalist ideas he represents.
Half - he isn’t fully formed and can change.
How does his free use of alcohol represent anything?
Represents double standard of men and women.
‘In that state..
where a chap easily turns nasty’
Normalizes his behavior
Commonly shared belief the listeners will relate. - Lack of responsibility
Using alcohol as an excuse.
‘Chap’ - friendliness and distances himself from the implied rape - lack of responsibility.
‘And the us when it happened..
And i don’t even remember - that’s the hellish thing’
Remorse
Lack of detail - barely bring himself to admit what he’s done.
Not the type of father..
A chap could go to when he’s in trouble.
Excuses for his behavior - victimizes himself.
Immaturity - short term solutions of asking eva to marry him and giving her stolen money, but doesn’t see the long term consequences.
‘We did her:.
in all right.’
Collective responsibility.
Doesn’t matter if she’s actually dead or not.
‘It’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters’
accepts his role in her downfall, and echo s inspector.
He matured and become receptive of inspector.
