Generational Difference Flashcards
1st para -mStructure
Little distinction between older and younger generation, as mr birling has created a house which is an echo changer of his beliefs, silences children when they speak. Children are indoctrinated into capitalist values.
‘Now just you listen, Eric’
Immediately silences Eric Berates him Desire to suppressive his sons voice, Dismissal As an attempt to create an echo chamber Younger generations v Voices are suppressed within this household
Look mummy, isnt it a beauty’
Internalised materialism and capitalist mindset, money over everything else
Wants validation from her mum, does not have her own views, desperately seeking external validation from her parents
‘Mummy’ she follows her mums beliefs, like a child blindly follows her mothers guidance
Little autonomy over society.
Inherited and indoctrinated by parents values, they’re deeply insecure and seek validation
Immature yt and naivety in following their parent bigoted ideas
‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour Daddy, they’re people
Juxtaposes fathers view,
Interjects some hope from the beginning that younger gen could do better
She has greater degree of compassion to her parent which however is limited by her lack of discretions of her own actions
She rejects dehumanisation of working class sees them as people.
Only says this after inspector arrives, so inspector is a vehicle to help the younger generation develop their own mindset
2nd para - structure
Priestly creates a greater sense of divide between older and younger generation, but showing the amount of responsibility they wish to accept
Sense of juxtaposition
Reaction of older vs younger generation
Increasing confidence and assurances of younger gen as they challenge the older viewpoints
Developing their own sense of values which are more socialist, younger gen want to create an egalitarian society predicated on welfare
I think it was cruel and vile, mother
She appreciating that what her mother did was wrong
Breaking off from parents views
Accusational tone
Transition from mummy to mother
Distances from mother as she condemns her mother, now she scolds, reversered
I think - she has formed her own opinions
Divide between them is clear
Echoing the inspector, for the first time they ahve a different role model mo longer stuck in echo chamber they have a new role model seeing it through new eyes
INSOECTOR facilitates chnage
So I’m really responsible?
I’ll never never to do again to anybody
Repetition, genuine and she rlly means what she’s saying.
Conviction and authenticity
Anybody - inclusive and equal no one is worthy of the treatment she extended to eva
Ive done nothing I’m ashamed of
Stubborn refusal to change their mindset and accept responsibility
Lack of conviction, empathy, shame
Lacks moral integrity/ compass
Lacks conscious
Girls of that class, You musnt try to build up a wall
Dehumanisation if working class, segregation
Totally different species fundamentally different
Juxtaposes eachither she views
More similar than we are different, dismantle the social hierarchy
3rd para - structure
Gerald- Anomoly
He follows similar flight path to younger gen, but when it comes to the end he sides with older gen
I believe your right sir, hear hear, my father would agree wiht that, you couldn’t have done any thing else
Echo chamber
I just realised she dead
More emotional response to death of Eva
How did u know it’s teh same photogal
Deeply entrenched in class system that affords him those thing
Betrayal of this allegiance is to fathomable
He has a conscious and knows he could do better
Yet he fixates of things which are meaningless as he cannot justiryfy losing his power and privilege - liek photograph, and whether he was real
