Mr Birling Flashcards
Mr Birling Responsibility/Guilt
7) -“There’ll be a public scandal… and who here will suffer for that more than I will?”
5) “I care. I was almost certain of knighthood”
9)”I can’t take any responsibility”
10) “There’s every excuse for what both your mother and I did”
Mr Birling Class
4) “Arthur birling is a heavy-looking, rather portenentous man in his middle fifties… but rather provincial in his speach”
7) -“There’ll be a public scandal… and who here will suffer for that more than I will?”
5) “I care. I was almost certain of knighthood”
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Mr Birling Capitalism vs Socialism
1) -“Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.”
2) -“Probably a socialist or some sort of crank
8) “lower costs and higher prices”
———> “girls arn’t cheap labour- they’re people”- sheila
Mr Birling Age/ generational conflict
4) “Arthur birling is a heavy-looking, rather portenentous man in his middle fifties… but rather provincial in his speach”
5) “I care. I was almost certain of knighthood”
———> 6) “If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people they’d soon be asking for the Earth”
10) “There’s every excuse for what both your mother and I did”
———-> “girls arn’t cheap labour- they’re people”- sheila
Mr Birling Reputatation/Class
4) -“Arthur birling is a heavy-looking, rather portenentous man in his middle fifties… but rather provincial in his speach”
5)- “I care. I was almost certain of knighthood”
7) -“There’ll be a public scandal… and who here will suffer for that more than I will?”
Mr Birling Gender
8) “lower costs and higher prices”
9) “She’d had a lot to say -far too much- so i had to let her go”
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