Q6: “You’ll be living ... little war scares” Flashcards
1
Q
“You’ll be ____ in a ____ that’ll have ____ all these ____ versus ___ ____and all these ___ ____ ____ scares”
A
“You’ll be living in a world that’ll have forgotten all these capital versus labour agitations and all these silly little war scares”
2
Q
who said it and when? who did they say it to? what is it about?
A
Act 1. Mr Birling discussing labour strikes.
3
Q
4 key point:
A
- erroneous assumption about future
- depicts him as ignorant in eyes of CA
- construct of Mr B reflect beliefs of Edwardian capitalists who viewed protests of working classes as inconveniences that will be “forgotten” about
- semantic field of irritations (”agitations”, “silly”, “little”) suggests that he views the concerns of working classes and strikes as nuisances that will surely pass.
