Sheila (AIC)

Question 1

Act 2 responsibility?

Answer 1

“Mother,She died of horrible death don’t forget”

• Polosives litter her speech. “Died”, “death” and “don’t” emulates harsh reality she is trying to make her irresponsible family face
• Fragmented speech emphasises she is adressing her mother’s responsibility

Question 2

Act 3 responsibility?

Answer 2

“But, you’re beginning, it all over again to pretend that nothing has happened-“

• repetition on “pretend” shoss, she’s trying to make them see they can’t remain oblivious to ignore their responsibility.
• Plosives on “but”, “pretend” and “happened” creates harsh sound that responsibility is unavoidable

Question 3

Act 1 Gender?

Answer 3

“Look- mummy- isn’t it a beauty.”

• Abundance of hyphens shows her lack of voice and assertiveness
• ”?” Seeking validation and assurance
• Infertile language “mummy”

Question 4

Act 2 gender?

Answer 4

“But you’re forgetting. I’m supposed to be engaged to the hero of it.”

• Short sentence sarcastically mocking the meaning of marriage
• “engaged” creates an image of eternal marriage yet she uses it to mock marriage
• “hero” is a fictional character. She realises not only was his engagement fake so was the rest

Question 5

Act 1 socialist vs capitilism?

Answer 5

“But these girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people”

• “labour” being before “people” resembles capitilists judge people on their “labour” not as a person
• hyphen before labour emphasies her disgust as the disregard for lower classes
• “conjunction” on but shows she is interjecting in her fathers justification for his ceaseless exploitation.

Question 6

Act 2 socialist vs capitalism?

Answer 6

“But that won’t bring Eva Smith back to life, will it?”

• questioning, her father is infatuation with money and materialistic items. She is critiquing and criticising capitalism as a whole.
• conjunction on “but” Mr Birling shows he cares more for the money stolen than the life stolen.

Question 7

Act 2 guilt?

Answer 7

“(Rather wildly,with laugh) no, he’s giving us the ropes so that we’ll hang ourselves.”

• Rope has fibres that are intertwined, they’re interwind with their guilt.
• collective pronoun “us” shows, they collectively have to share this guilt”

Question 8

Act 3 guilt?

Answer 8

“But you’re forgetting one thing, I still can’t forget, everything we said had happened really had happened”

• personal pronoun “I” she personally feels guilt that is plaguing her conscience
• repitition of past tense “happened” that their actions are irreversible. So she feels guilt

Question 9

Older vs younger Act 1?

Answer 9

“Yes, go on mummy”

• Infertile language, “mummy” short simplistic, sentences, submissive, submissive interjection on “yes”

Question 10

Act 2 older vs younger?

Answer 10

“and can’t see both of you, you’re making it worse”

• Rhetorical question she is questioning their regressive and stagnant views. Direct address on “both of you” empowered socialism to directly criticise her parents. Verb “see” emphasises they are blinded by capitilsm and Sheila is trying to awake them.