Mr Birling Flashcards
Im talking as a
“Hard headed practical man of business
You’ll hear some people say war is
“Inevitable… fiddlesticks!”
The titanic
“Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
I gather
“There’s a very good chance of a knighthood”
But i dont understand
“Why you should come here”
You’d think everyone has to look sfter everybody else, as if we were
“Bees in a hive”
Probably a
“Socialist or some sort of crank”
Priestely uses alot of d…
Dramatic irony
Birlings language is very
Dismissibe when he says fiddlesticks- belittles others ideas
Exclamatory sentences
Birling is passionate and convinced about what he is saying
Titanic symbolises
His own family- belives they are untouchable until the inspector arrives
Birlings language becomes
Colloquial “y’know” which conveys how his authority is breaking down
Biriling uses “I”
Which shows his selfish attitudes
Birling uses inclusive pronoun “we”
Trues to diminish the problem and shift the blame of eva’s death
Birling uses euphemisms
Avoids trying to say what actually happened to avoid blame
