Family Life (Context)

Question 1

What were the middle class male gender roles?

Answer 1

Support their ‘perfect families’

Protect women - especially wives and daughters

Question 2

What were the middle class female gender roles?

Answer 2

Marry into money so they didn’t have to work

Plan parties, have children and visit friends (didn’t have to cook, clean or do washing)

Question 3

What were the middle class families expected to be like?

Answer 3

content within their roles and their positions in the families

Question 4

What were the difference in roles between middle class and working class women?

Answer 4

Working class women had to get jobs and cooked and cleaned

Question 5

What class were the Birling’s?

Answer 5

middle to upper class

Question 6

What did the Birling’s want people to believe about their family?

Answer 6

That they were the perfect family

Question 7

What is destroyed by the Inspectors arrival?

Answer 7

the clear hierarchy in the family

Question 8

What do Mr and Mrs Birling gradually lose?

Answer 8

control and authority towards their children