Mrs Birling Quotes [analysis] Flashcards
“Girls of that class”
The verb ‘that’ is not inclusive to herself suggesting that she detaches herself from any who belongs to a class lower than her own.
“I didn’t like her manner…it didn’t take me long to get the truth…out of her”
Welfare State steps in when you become unemployed but there was no Welfare State, it will be created by the Labour government post 1945 and this is what Priestley is trying to campaign for.
Sybil takes away the most basic human rights away from the poor
“I’m sorry she should have come to such a horrible end. But I accept no blame for it.”
Priestley uses Bathos with Sybil’s fake apology, shows the inhumane qualities that conservatism and the bourgeoisie culture brings, repelling the audience against it
“this is the time you chose to tell me”
she has no relationship or intimate communication with her son
“the girl had begun by telling us a pack of lies”
how does this link to who is most responsible for Eva’s death?
- irony of her not knowing that Eric was the father when she says “if the girl’s death is due to anybody, then it’s due to him”
