sheila Flashcards
‘I don’t believe I will’
C = Sheila refuses to accept taking second place to her husband’s business as her mother has done; reflects differences in generations and rise in suffragette movement and campaign for equality for women
Fairy prince’
L = metaphor. Sheila is using sarcasm to ‘puncture’ Gerald’s representation of himself as Daisy’s noble saviour, realising it her vulnerability just appeals to his big ego. Irony = for Daisy as a WC woman, life was a nightmare not a fairytale
‘these girls aren’t cheap labour…they’re people’
C = Sheila begins to realise that her father’s workers are not just a collective workforce, but individual human beings, and deserve to be treated with respect. L = adj ‘cheap’ normally applied to goods; I /D = Marxist interpretation – human beings reduced to means of production in capitalist society
‘I know I’m to blame’
C = Sheila begins to realise that her father’s workers are not just a collective workforce, but individual human beings, and deserve to be treated with respect. L = adj ‘cheap’ normally applied to goods; I /D = Marxist interpretation – human beings reduced to means of production in capitalist society
‘you’re beginning….to pretend that nothing much happened… you don’t seem to have learnt anything’
Unlike her parents, S and E change and learn that they have responsibility for others. L = parents not learning lesson links to Inspector’s fire & blood speech and cyclical structure of play which disrupts its naturalism – doomed to repeat mistakes until they learn from them
‘you and I aren’t the same people’
Sheila has changed as a person and can no longer marry Gerald even if it would be financially advantageous. I = feminist interpretation – Sheila has become more independent and will only marry on her own terms, not her father’s.
‘you mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and the girl’
L = metaphor. I = could represent the class divide that Mrs B tries to assert; could also represent Mrs B’s denial. Mrs B need to accept responsibility for others and accept the truth
‘she looked as if she could take care of herself. I couldn’t be sorry for her’
C = reflects class prejudice. Eva does not appear to be vulnerable or needy therefore S. does not regret her actions. R = audience perceives Sheila as spoilt and unsympathetic in abusing her
