zzz Flashcards
Arthur as foolish and idiotic
“Wars inevitable…to that I say fiddlesticks” “Unsinkable… absolutely unsinkable” foolish and idiotic, dramatic irony
Arthur greed
“Heavy looking” , “for lower costs and prices” -greed
Arthur selfishness
“Your the kind of son in law I’ve always wanted” “The Birlings and the Crofts are no longer competing” selfish as takes attention away from Sheila
Arthur portentous and insecure
“Finchley told me it’s the exact same port your father gets his from” first thing he says , nouveau riche and ironic as he is victim to class prejudiced himself, trying to prove himself, insecure,. “Portentous man”
Inspector encourages what?
The inspector encourages sociopolitical change
Inspector emotive
1.”Her position now is that she lies burnt out inside on a slab.” shocking and does this to try and highlight the destructive nature of capitalism and to get sympathy. Emotive
Inspector prophetic and omniscent
2.”If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish” omniscient and prophetic as he predicts what is going to happen, audience would have just gone through ww2 and would not want it to happen again
Inspector hyper masculine
3.”He creates an impression of massiveness,solidity and purposefulness” imposing
“Need not be a big man” he is still hyper masculine despite not being big, socialism is more powerful
“A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody’s made of it”
Uses own words against him and takes power by juxtaposing his lack of remorse and not making the audience want to align with him, promising makes it worse and creates sympathy
Laconic
”Carefully and weightily” “[harshly’Yes, but you can’t. It’s too late. She’s dead” Laconic, intelligent, authoritative
Short sentences make the statement harsher, with more pauses for emphasis.
“[harshly]” he doesn’t care about their feelings.
“You can’t” direct address and imperative used to evoke regret and make them feel personally attacked.
“She’s dead” simple statement carries more power.
Old stubborn and cold hearted
Arthur-”I can’t accept any responsibility for that wretched girls suicide”
Stage-”A rather cold women”
Young impressionable and open-minded
Sheila “Between us we drove that girl to suicide”
Eric -”We all helped kill her”
Old foolish and dumb
Dramatic irony and
Mrs Birling “Of course not he’s only a boy”
Eric neglected
Young smart
“That’s what i meant when i talked about building up a wall that’s sure to be knocked flat, it snakes it harder to bare” she is insightful and prophetic as she realises things before which gives her power and knowledge as a result of accepting responsibility, she is a didactic device
Old as reactionaries
Sybil “We can all go on behaving just as we did
Young as revolutionary
Eric -[shouting] And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her - and that’s what matters -
and eva
Gender power
Most powerful character is a man
Women as objectWomen as only for looks
“I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women.”
Innocent and childish
women
I think Sheila and I had better go to the drawing room and leave you men
Sheila being removed as they thought that she was to gentle and vulnerable to hear the details even though she was a grown women who was getting married
Women as stupid
“Now Sheila don’t tease him. When you’re married you’ll realise that men with important work to do” suggests that women dont have important workj to do
Men are lustful and women being exploited
Eric “Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person”
How does Sheila change
Mummy to mother
Masculine
Hyper masculine
Riche
Nouveau riche
because why
because why
