Themes’ Topic Sentences

Question 1

Exploitation topic sentences

Answer 1

• Mr Birling’s business practices are used by Priestley as an ​allegory ​for ​Capitalism’s exploitation of the working class​. He details the ways in which ​profit is prioritised over personal wellbeing​, and how the poor are ​dehumanised ​and ​reduced to cheap labour.
• As the young men in the family, Gerald and Eric represent the ways in which exploitation and mistreatment of women is ​normalised ​and ​encouraged ​in society.

-Sheila exploiting her ​status ​as the daughter of a well-known man to get Eva fired
without a sufficient cause serves as an example of exploitation of power which leads to mistreatment that may lower class members of society face.
Mrs Birling exploiting her ​influence ​at the charity to get her case denied further demonstrates this.