Sheila

Question 1

(cutting - in)

Answer 1

Sheila embodies / adopts role of inspector!

Question 2

What is Sheila’s relationship with Gerald and her parents like?

Answer 2

Gerald = She gives ring back!!!!!
Parents = Patronised, limited rebellion due to established patriarchy / gender

Question 3

What does Sheila represent in the play?

Answer 3

PLAY AS CONSTRUCT

Sheila is the representation of a hope for change, an educated younger generation, a hope for the future

Question 4

How could you introduce Preistley’s presentation of Sheila?
Key over view points
Link back to throughout essay!

Answer 4

• SYMPATHETIC presentation
• Challenges patriarchal reign / empathise with institutionally oppressed woman
• Learns a moral lesson from death of Eva Smith
• Highlighting HOPE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

Question 5

STEP 5 - SHEILA’S EXPOSITION

sheila in the beginning of the play

Answer 5

JUXTAPOSE EVA SMITH AND SHEILA BIRLING AS THE TWO YOUNG WOMEN

“pretty girl”
“half serious/half playful”
“I’ll never let it out of my sight for an instant” -(about ring)

Question 6

STEP 6 - INSPECTORS SPEECH

Answer 6

• highlight Sheila’s DEVELOPING EPIPHANY
  ‘These girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people’
  ‘So I’m really responsible?’
  ‘You and I are not the SAME PEOPLE who sat down for dinner’

Question 7

STEP 7 - HOAX INSPECTOR

Answer 7

‘It frightens me, the way you talk’
‘You began to learn something and now you’ve stopped’
‘Everything we said happened really happened’