Mrs. Sybil Birling [14]

Question 1

MRS-BIRLING

Apathetic and Cruel

Give 3 quotes and their relevant analysis

Answer 1

○ “She only had herself to blame”
○ “I’ve done nothing wrong - and you know it”
○ (With dignity) “We’ve done a great deal of useful work in deserving cases”

Question 2

MRS-BIRLING

Self-assured | Denial of Responsibility

Give 4 quotes and their relevant analysis

Answer 2

○ [Triumphantly] Didn’t I tell you? {About the inspector being a fraud}
○ “You have no power to make me change my mind”
○ [Enters briskly and confidently, quite out of key with the little scene that has just passed]
○ “I accept no blame for it at all”

Question 3

MRS-BIRLING

Stubborn & unwilling to develop

Give 2 quotes and their relevant analysis

Answer 3

○ “I don’t understand you Inspector / Sheila, I simply don’t understand your attitude / No - Eric - please - I didn’t know - i didn’t understand”
○ “Of course it does” [Referencing the Inspector’s legitimancy]

Question 4

MRS-BIRLING

Superiority and Haughtiness

Give 4 quotes and their relevant analysis

Answer 4

○ “Nothing but morbid curiosity”
○ “I’m talking to the inspector now, if you don’t mind”
○ “I was the only one who didn’t give in to him”
○ “You have no power to make me change my mind”

Question 5

MRS-BIRLING

Prejudiced and Classist

Give 3 quotes and their relevant analysis

Answer 5

○ “As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money”
○ “It was a piece of gross-impertinence - quite deliberate”
○ “You know of course that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago and that he’s still a magistrate”