MR BIRLING Flashcards
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how is Mr Birling presented?
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Priestley exhibits Mr Birling as the living embodiment of capitalist ideology.
Birling strategically privileges his financial interests above others’ well-being. Priestly uses the character of Mr Birling to criticise intrinsic greed and the ethical shortcomings of capitalism.
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“as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive- community and all that nonsense”
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simile ‘like bees in a hive’ is an attempt for Mr Birling to trivialise the concept of socialism. bees in a hive almost makes it seem like Birling is trying to make them appear animistic.
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