Sheila Birling Quotes

Question 1

Your squiffy.

Answer 1

-Act one, immaturity

Question 2

Mummy isn’t it a ——-?

Answer 2

Mummy - Isn’t it a beauty?
-immaturity

Question 3

– And I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh, I wish you hadn’t told me. What was she like? Quite young?

Answer 3

Sheila, Act 1

Question 4

Pretty? (About Eva smith)

Answer 4

Sheila, act one

Question 5

But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people

Answer 5

Sheila, Act 1, socialist view

Disgusted by the inhumanity of her family, she becomes disillusioned with capitalism

Humanistic perspective: frees her from the shackles of her oppressive privileged existence, valuing individuals over profit.

This metamorphosis (change) symbolises women’s empowerment and role in advocating social injustice for all oppressed members in society, advancing women’s rights later in 1945

Question 6

It was my own fault

Answer 6

Sheila, Act 1, responsibility

Question 7

If she’d been some miserable plain little creature, I don’t suppose I’d have done it. But she was very pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself. I couldn’t be sorry for her.

Answer 7

Sheila- Act 1, responsibility

Question 8

And if I could help her now, I would –

Answer 8

Sheila, act 1

Question 9

Why – you fool – he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet. You’ll see. You’ll see.

Answer 9

Sheila, Act 1, Learning, responsibility, Inspection

Question 10

No, he’s giving us the rope – so we’ll hang ourselves.

Answer 10

Sheila, Act 2, Social responsibility, Learning, inspection, guilt

Question 11

And probably between us, we killed her

Answer 11

Sheila, Act 2, Guilt, responsibility

Question 12

I’m not a child, don’t forget. I’ve got a right to know.

Answer 12

Sheila, Act 2, gender, (age) Young vs old, responsibility

Question 13

You are the wonderful fairy prince. You must’ve adored it, Gerald.

Answer 13

Sheila, Act 2, Explotation, love

Question 14

Gerald set her up as his mistress and then dropped her when it suited him.

Answer 14

Sheila, act 2, Social class, exploitation

Question 15

You don’t seem to have learnt anything

Answer 15

Sheila, Act 3

Question 16

Everything we said had happened really had happened. If it didn’t end tragically, then that’s lucky for us. But it might have done.

Answer 16

Sheila, Act 3

Question 17

It frightens me the way you talk

Answer 17

Sheila, Act 3

Question 18

“What he made me feel, Fire and blood and anguish” Act 3

Answer 18

Sheila Act 3

Becomes the inspectors Proxy when he leaves (to take someone else’s role when they leave)
Which is exemplified by her provide emulation of Polysyndeton ( which means to repeat “and” to emphasis the enteral consequences for lacking social conscience)

Becomes a moral compass, we can see this through the personal pronoun “me”
Her awareness extends beyond person remorse, but develops understanding of systemic consequences of capitalist ideologies on society as a whole.