Mrs Birling Flashcards
How is mrs birling shown
Ignorant to lower classes
Selfish
Capitalist
Stage direction “cold”
Adjective symbolises and foreshadows her behavior towards the lower class
Age being “fifty”
Notion that older generation are more narrow minded and reluctant to change
“Girls of that class”
Dehumanisation of eva and all girls of lower class
“Girls” generalisation with the implication that all are poor or will commit suicide
Apathy displayed - linking back to “cold”
“ a girl of that sort”
Determiner “that” reiterates disdain and diregard for tye “girls” foreshadowing the incident in the charity
She thinks shes morally superior - that Could be suggesting priestly is saying that capitalism promotes moral corruption
Miss birlimg uses abrupt snd dismissive language “that class” “that sort”
Priestly view - uses mrs birling to epitomize sll that is wromg in society. She represents social snobbery snd hypocrisy of the upper class
“Im very sorry, but i think she only had herself to blame”
Shows no remorse in her cruel treatment of eva smith
