QUOTES Flashcards
A man has to mind his business…
And look after himself and his own.
MR BIRLING
- ‘has to’ - necessity/ no other choice
- ‘business’ - your financial business OR your own personal problems
- IRONIC - they all sneak their way into Eva’s business which leads to her death
- Definition of capitalism
- prioritises me and my money.
- Embodiment of capitalistic ideology.
- ‘His own’ last in that order, beliefs are always you first.
‘These girls aren’t cheap
Labour - they’re people’ SHELIA
- battle between socialism and capitalism
- ‘labour’ can link to how she was undermined, used, treated by the men
- working class seen as expendable, replaceable, worthless
- capitalism shows how they see people as only an opportunity for money or pleasure
- links to S and G - Shelia is just cheap Labour in order for Mr B to get what he wants in having a new business partner. All about himself.
If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody…
… we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward wouldn’t it?’
- dodging responsibility COMPLETELY FOR EVERYTHING including Eva smith
- foreshadows how awkward it does get between the family and the tension between them
- sums up their fate
- auspenskys time theory
‘I blame the young man who …
… is the father of the child’ MRS BIRLING
- passing blame
- believes shame upon the father
- yet when she finds out ‘if only I knew’
- DRAMATIC IRONY
- links to morality
- good and bad deeds are only dependent on who has comities the act
- she has not morals
Links to how they all commit moral crimes
‘She was pretty …
… and a good sport’ ERIC
- patriarchy, how men viewed women
- sport, game winner and looser, high power wins every time
- links to how rich men can do whatever they want, reflected in todays society
- speaks openly, already knows there is no backlash
‘We are members …
…Of one body’ GOOLE
- Priestley reflects his ideologies of socialism in Goole, shows audience that we are all responsible for each other
- METAPHOR
- our pain is others pain, we all suffer together as a society
- goes against what the birlings stand for
- embodiment of giving them a second chance
‘You don’t seem…
… to have learnt anything’ SHELIA
- direct, standing against her parents
- socialism transforms her into a woman with beliefs
- speaks for people who have no voice
- this could all be deemed as futile, it won’t last long and she’ll carry on with the life she’s known before, the birlings power is too much, links to how she alludes the idea of taking Gerald back
Fire blood
And anguish’ GOOLE
- rule of thirds
- foreshadow the war - ‘unsinkable’
- looses all hope in them - auspenskys time theory
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Clothes mean something …
… very different to a woman’
- women’s respect or love was measured by their wardrobe
- power of men
- troubles of working class
- gender
- patriarchal society
