Mrs.Sybil Birling Flashcards
“As if I girl of that sort would ever refuse any money”
Analyse the quote
-Shows Mrs Burling’s view on the lower class, believing that they don’t have morals
-“as if” shows us that she thinks the idea is ridiculous
-That sort shows class judgement
“Mr Burling’s wife is about 50 rather cold woman, and her husband social superior”
-Mrs Burling’s identity is rooted in the fact she’s a married woman patriarchal views
-“cold” shows her as being unsympathetic and foreshadows her unwillingness to change
“Unlike the other three, I did nothing, I’m ashamed of or that won’t bear investigation”
What does this quote show
-Separate herself from the family, by saying the other 3 showing she believes she is superior
- shows her as cold and uncaring
what does mrs birling represent
-welfare state
-charity
-middle upper classes women
sybil quotes
-“Unlike the other three, I did nothing, I’m ashamed of or that won’t bear investigation”
-“As if I girl of that sort would ever refuse any money”
-“Mrs Burling’s wife is about 50 rather cold woman, and her husband social superior”
-“i don’t believe it,i wont believe it”
what does the name sybil show
-sybil is named after the greek myth of the sibyls, who were famous for their gift of prophecies, this is ironic as sybil on many occasions is deliberately blinded to the truth
-priestly wants to show she could behave so differently, she could help others rather then harm them
-she is also willfully blinded towards the actions of the men within her society
-this is supported with the quote “i don’t believe it, i wont believe it”
-she blinds herslef to the truth to be predujuce
what is priestly showing about the welfare state when sybil refuses money
it doesn’t excuse sybil,but priestly points out that it is not the job of the welfare state to make moral judgments unlike charity, it helps people who are poor even if there poverty is theiir own fault
