Sheila Flashcards
1
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Introduction
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- younger generation
- immature but grows as she takes responsibility
- becomes a mouthpiece for priestly
shows she is capable of change
2
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Beginning
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- childish and immature
- ‘look mummy-isn’t it a beauty?’
- values appearance, materialistic
- she needs expensive symbols to prove her engagement
- ‘quite young? Pretty?’ she first asks what Eva looks like rather than asking anything else
- plethora of questions show she needs to make sense of the world, she is a child
3
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Original thought towards Eva Smith
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- she describes her as a ‘creature’
- dehumanizes Eva
- ‘was very pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself’, she thinks because she is pretty she is well of, hypocritical
- she is jealous of Eva so get’s her fired
4
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change
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- ‘but these girls aren’t cheap labour they’re people’, Sheila realizes this before her family and creates the link between Eric and Eva, she is actually smarter but we are made to think she isn’t
- axiomatic statement goes against audiences beliefs
- ‘so I’m really responsible’, she acknowledges her actions
- it was my own fault’, she first person pronouns so she takes responsibility
- dialogue show she is a quick learner and talks formally