Working Class Vs Upper Class Flashcards
1
Q
A1 - costs
A
‘lower costs and higher prices’
2
Q
A1 - hundred
A
BIRLING
‘several of hundred young women there, y’know, and they keep changing’
3
Q
A1 - cheap
A
SHEILA
‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people’
4
Q
A2 - elaborate
A
MRS BIRLING
‘She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd for a girl in her position.’
She doesn’t think Eva could have scruples
5
Q
A1 - ‘Edna’
A
BIRLING
‘All right, Edna, show him in here’
Very imperative to the lower class Edna calls him 'Sir' whereas he simply calls her by her first name to show his authority
6
Q
A1 - warn
A
‘Perhaps I ought to warn you that he’s [Chief] an old friend of mine, and that I see him fairly frequently.’
7
Q
A1 - fairly
A
Stage directions
The dining room of a fairly large suburban house
