Society As Unfair Flashcards
Ts1: society is presented as unfair through the class prejudice of the upper class to the working class.
‘They’d all be broke- if I know them’
‘Girls of that class’
‘Get into trouble? Go on the streets?’
‘She looked as if she could take care of herself. I couldn’t be sorry for her.’
‘Gross impertinence…prejudiced me against her case’
‘She’d had a lot to say… she had to go’
‘If you don’t come down sharply on these people… they’d be asking for the earth’
Ts2: society is presented as unfair due to the Birlings acting as a microcosm for society and mr and Mrs B do not accept social responsibility for their actions, showing how society will remain unfair if they do not change.
‘A man has to look after himself’
‘I did nothing I’m ashamed of’
‘Look for the father of the child… it’s his responsibility’
‘A hoax… the whole thing’s different now’
Ts3: Eva smith is a construct by Priestley to present society as unfair to WC women.
‘An animal, a thing’
‘I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty’
‘You refused her…even the pitiable little bit of organised charity you had in your power to grant her’
‘Elaborate fine feelings and scruples…absurd in a girl in her position’
‘Lonely, half starved, desperate’
‘You slammed the door in her face’
‘Gross impertinence… prejudiced me against her case’
Topic sentences:
Ts1: class prejudice shows society is unfair. Ts2: mr and Mrs b refuse to accept responsibility acting as a microcosm for UC, showing how society will remain unfair. Ts3: Eva smith construct to show how society unfair for WC women.
Ts4: G treatment of Eva
‘Fairy Prince’
‘She knew it couldn’t last’
The girl ‘gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help’
Ts4: s+e realise society is unfair and want to change it for the better
‘These girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people’
‘I know I’m to blame’
‘The girls dead and we all helped to kill her’
‘He was our police inspector all right’
‘Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices’
