Sheila Flashcards
Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.
- Sheila is presented to lives a joyful merry life but is kept ignorant as her families hide secrets.
-Could use this quote to contrast the “in fire and bloody and anguish”.
“Look mummy isn’t it a beauty”
Talks about a ring
The use of childish language, ‘mummy’, highlights her immaturity at this point in the play, while her focus on beauty foreshadows what we learn later: that she ruined Eva’s career out of jealousy for her appearance.
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people.”
Sheila stands up against her father arguing back at her father capitalist views.
Sheila humanizes the people in the lower class understanding there not just labour
“Oh shut up, Eric. I know, I know. It’s the only time I’ve ever done anything like that, and I’ll never, never do it again to anybody.
-Sheila feels social responsibility and she is filled with guilt. She knows that what she did was wrong but instead of trying to deny her actions, she takes responsibility for them. The repetition of ‘I know’ and ‘never’ truly emphasises her social responsibility as she has learnt from her actions and will not do anything like that again
in.Sheila feels social responsibility and she is filled with guilt. She knows that what she did was wrong but instead of trying to deny her actions, she takes responsibility for them. The repetition of ‘I know’ and ‘never’ truly emphasises her quilt and social responsibility as she has learnt from her actions and will not do something like this again.
Birling: (heartily) Nonsense! You’ll have a good laugh over it yet. Look, you’d better ask Gerald for that
ring you gave back to him, hadn’t you? Then you’ll feel better
Sheila: “You’re pretending everything’s just as it was before”
Sheila has transform developing into a strong independent women free from he parents opinions throught this moment Priestly highlight the message that women in society can change.
Sheila: (half serious, half playful) Yes – except for all last summer, when you never came near me, and I
wondered what had happened to you.
Gerald: And I’ve told you – I was awfully busy at the works all that time.
