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Responsibility: Context: Generation Gap:- Mr Birling – Start - ‘A man has to mind his own business and - Rigid social class – cycle of Mr Birling Sheila
look after himself’ End – ‘I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can’ poverty (upper + lower class
- ‘It’s my duty - ‘But these girls
- Mrs Birling – Start – ‘She only has herself to blame’ End – didn’t mix) to keep labour aren’t cheap
‘I did nothing I’m ashamed of’ costs down’ labour- they’re
- Written after WW2 but set people’
- Sheila – ‘I’ll never, never do it again to anybody’ before – shows Mr Birlings - ‘I can’t take
arrogance any - ‘I’ll never, never
- Eric – Start – called ‘squiffy’ by Sheila End – ‘what we did to responsibility’ do it again to
her that matters’ anybody’
- Titanic sank – shows upper - ‘I’ve got to
- Gerald – Start – ‘I don’t come into this suicide business’ class are touchable cover this up as - ‘I’m desperately
End – ‘You know, it wasn’t disgusting’ soon as I can’ sorry’
- Women expected to follow
wishes of father in marriage – - ‘down right - ‘It frightens me
public scandal’ the way you talk’
Gender (women): showed in Sheila’s
engagement to Gerald - ‘The famous
- Mr Birling – ‘a sort of sign or token of younger
their self-respect’ (stereotypical view of generation who
women) know it all’
- Mrs Birling – Start – ‘a girl in her
position’ (when Eva went to get help – Mrs B
can be as cruel as men)
An By J. B.
Priestley
- Sheila –
Inspector
‘But these girls aren’t cheap
labour- they’re people’ Gerald Croft:
- Eric – Start – ‘she was pretty and a good - ‘I don’t come into this
sport’ (doesn’t care about emotions) End –
‘the fact remains, I did what I did’ suicide business’ Start – doesn’t want
Calls
to take responsibility
- Gerald – ‘I hate those hard-eyed
dough-faced women’ (superficial view of - ‘You’ve been through it –
women) and now you want to see
someone else put through it’
Act 2 – Sheila and Gerald turn on each other
Class: - ‘taken it in properly – that
she’s dead’ shows compassion
- Mr Birling – Start - ‘like bees in a hive’ (doesn’t believe in community) End – ‘down right public scandal’
- Mrs Birling – ‘Girls of that class’ (thinks she’s superior) - ‘You know, it wasn’t
disgusting’ End - Can’t see what he did
wrong
- Sheila – ‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people’ (Priestley’s mouthpiece for social change)
- ‘Everything’s all right now
- Eric – Start – ‘she was pretty and a good sport’ (doesn’t care about emotions) End – ‘the fact remains, I did what I Sheila what about this ring?’
did’
End - shows he’s not changed and hasn’t
taken social responsibility
- Gerald – ‘we’re respectable citizens and not criminals’ (implying lower class are criminals - CONTEXT)
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