Shelia Birling Flashcards
What does the quote
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour, their people” suggest about Sheilas views
-Shows that she doesn’t share the same capitalist ideals that her parents do
-Plural “people” rather than a single person, suggesting that the amount of people in this position is vast
What is priestly intensions of praising Sheila and showing her to be a good character?
By praising a character, who represents the audience, Priestly could be encouraging his audience to learn the same lesson and help the less fortunate.
“You mustn’t try to build up a sort of wall between us, and that girl”
Metaphor for the barriers, the Burlings are putting up between social classes, as well as the barriers they are putting between themselves and the death
“(Rather wildly, with laugh) no he’s giving us the rope -so that we’ll hang ourself”
-presents her as a foil to her irresponsible parents
-disillusioned with the ideas of capitalism
-rope has fibres that are all intertwined -Shelia has recognised that everybody in society is society is intertwined with their responsibility’s
-realised impacts of capitalists
what does priestly use the character of shelia for
-show individual power in a bias society
-to challenge ideas about gender
-inspectors proxy
sheila birling quotes
-“But these girls aren’t cheap labour, their people”
-“(Rather wildly, with laugh) no he’s giving us the rope -so that we’ll hang yourself”
-“You mustn’t try to build up a sort of wall between us, and that girl”
why cant sheila act upon the inspectors lessons
-although sheila learns the inspectors lesson she can not act upon it as she has no political vote or power
-she cannot become independent of her parents except through marriage
-the female audience were able to vote, this is a play about empowering women
-at the end of the play when gerald still wants to marry she doesn’t only refuse but she states “not yet” she needs this marriage gain independence
