eva Flashcards
1 “burnt her inside out”
2 “died in misery and agony - hating life”
-priestley deliberately uses graphic language to describe the gruesome death of eva in order to awaken the privileged bourgeoisie audience to the plight of the proletariat
-priestley uses eva to inflict guilt upon B’s to make them repent + change
-inspector emphasises + dramatises suffering of E
-graphic adjectives “misery and agony” help audience visualise her pain
1 “she had a lot to say, so she had to go”
-E is emblematic of working-class women - easily exploited + oppressed by capitalist upper-class men
-priestley reflects women had no voice through E not being present
-powerless to change as her story is told by upper class
-MB believes women shouldn’t vocalise dissent so told her to “clear out”
-highlights cruel treatment + salacious attitude towards proletariat
-MB’s capitalist ideology led him to firing E for not subjecting to his low pay
2 “young and fresh and charming and altogether out of place down there”
-priestley uses E to show working-class women were sexually exploited by men who would seek gratification for their desires
-inspector identifies G’s objectification of E when he asks if he intended to “keep” her - implies ownership
-G dehumanises E calling her “the girl” erasing her individual identity
-G’s infidelity creates sympathy as he “broke it off” casually showing he had no real connection only sexual desires
-connotations of purity as she is “out of place”
2 “she seemed to me not a good case - and so I used my influence”
-priestley uses E to contrast destitute, deprived lives of working class with luxury, privileged lives of upper class
-MSB’s materialism shown when she degrades E who has no material possessions + “no relatives to help her”
-“impertinence” loaded with connotations of prejudice implying MSB sees herself as superior
3 “she was pretty and a good sport”
-E saw E as a means to fulfilling his own desires + has hunting connotations
-priestley may do this to demonstrate predatory nature of relationship
-relationship wasn’t consensual - “she didn’t want me to go in” yet she was powerless
-E was “in that state” implying male violence was common
-objectification of women
3 “as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person”
degrading triple simile + “an animal” highlights their blatant disregard of her humanity through their dehumanising + exploitative treatment
-could be allusion to how inspector is critiquing disregard of women - condemns E + G for identifying her as an object of lust
-neglectful noun “thing” intensifies she was regarded with any form of compassion due to her social class
