Sheila Birling Flashcards
her development
Act 1 - mummy to Act 3 - mother
disagreeing with parents - ‘it frightens me the way you talk’ / ‘- (cutting in)’
her naivety
3
‘is it the one you wanted me to have?’
‘Oh - how horrible! Was it an accident!’
‘Oh I wish you hadn’t told me’
her socialist view - act 1
‘these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people’
the change in her taking responsibility
Act 1 - ‘you talk as if we were responsible’
Act 3 - ‘between us we drove that girl to commit suicide’
Act 3 - realises they need to accept their actions and make a change
(2)
‘so nothing really happened…nothing to be sorry for, nothing to learn’
‘(bitterly) I suppose we’re all nice people now’
End of Act 1 - she begins to understand the inspector
‘we haven’t much time…(she looks at him almost in triumph’
Act 1 - capitalist view = taught by her parents
‘if sh’ed been some miserable, plain little creature I don’t suppose I’d done it’
