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15 Cards in this Set
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"The Titanic - she sails next week...and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable" |
Mr Birling -dramatic irony gives audience an advantage over characters, makes them more involoved -titanic symbolises his own family, thinks their untouchable until inspector arrives, awakening -Also the titanic representative of the powe of capitalism at the time, will fall down |
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"I was an alderman for years - and lord mayor two years ago" |
Mr Birling -asserting his power -use of 'i' conveys selfish attitude. as play progresses uses inclusive pronouns 'we' to diminish the scale of the problem, shift blame. -Also his language becomes more colloquial 'yknow' his authority breaking down. through collowuial language priestley presents him as a realistic character. Furthermore he is described as'panick stricken' this indicates that his defiance have been finally shattered and so priestely shows the audience that capitalism is weak. |
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"theres every excuse for what your mother and i did" |
Mr Birling -Takes no responsibility -representative of the older generation who are unwilling to change |
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"As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!" |
Mrs Birling -Thinks all lower class women are the sam and are not individuals -Her language here here is quite abrupt and dismissive 'that..' shows she believes she is morally and socially superior to them -priestely uses her to epitomise all that is wrong with society. represents the social snobbery and hypocrisy of upper class |
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"No-Eric-please" |
Mrs Birling -The fragmented speech echoes the collapsing of self confidence and complacency of these wealthy characters. contrasts to start of play. The dashes could also represent the break down in their relationships, shes not a good mother -Cant trust wealthy people to look after society |
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"Go and look for the father of the child. Its his responsibility." |
Mrs Birling -takes no responibility -condemns her son, is cut off from reality -priestely presents her as an absurd character who ironically passes her own social guilt onto her own son. as a result priestely treats her with special severity |
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"Yes, go on, Mummy" |
Sheila -personal pronouns to highlight her selfish, childlike attitude at the start of the play -as play progresses 'mother' reflects she has lost respect for mrs birling because of her behaviour -Sheila offers hope for the future and priestely uses her as an example of peoples changing attitudes towards the less fortunate in 1912 |
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"Build up a kind of wall" - "Giving us rope so that we hang ourselves" |
Sheila -Uses imagery to display the metaphorical distance Mrs Birling creates between the classes. When sheila warns the others that the inspector is 'giving us rope...' she is once again using a metaphor to create a visual image of the way the inspector skilfully manipulates characters to confess their sins |
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"but that wont bring eva smith back to live, will it?" |
Sheila -Shows she becomes a bit like the inspector, ing questions and contradicting her mother -clearly feels truely sorry for her actions, audience feel sympathetic for her -acts as assistant to inspectore she supports his critcism of the other characters, becoming his mouthpiece when he leaves the stage. |
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"why should you(stay)? Its bound to be unpleasant and disturbing" |
Gerald -shares Mr Birlings concern to protect sheila from anything unpleasent. Patronising view of women -Gerald provides a strong contrast to Eric and priestely uses Gerald to show tensions between eric and his father. |
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"(Daisy) gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for health" |
Gerald -Uses imagery of a rescue mission when describing his role in daisys death. he does this to lessen his guilt and try to justify his behaviour. Priestley shows that it is common for the upper class to behave so badly towards the lower class by having gerald present. makes it clear to the audience the problem is widespre |
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"everythings all right now" |
Gerald -delusional thinks deep down he is a good person -represents aristocrats, detached from society -Priestely uses Gerald to throw light on both the birling parents who are too set in their ways and their children who are responsive to inspectors message. acts as a bridge between two gens |
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"and you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasent and disturbing thiongs?" |
Inspector Manipulates the characters systematically extracting information -Turns each characters words back upon them, this theme of reversal runs through the structure of the play -The omnicient inspector is used by priestley to further convey his views on social responsibility. He is used effectively to highlight corruption and the selfish attitudes of the twetieth century. |
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Cutting through massively |
Inspector -sematic field of size : showing his importance and power many examples like this of inspector interrupting birling, door bell, represents the superiority of socialism over capitalism. |
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"we are all members one body" |
-The speech uses short and complex sentences, priestley makes great use of these short sentence structures to deliver opinions and facts -He alludes tot he bible in this quote to emphasise the inspectors belief in human love and equality -Through the inspectors final speech, priestly skillfully warns the audience that it is vital after the second world war, during of which the play was written, taht society changes its political views. Priestley does this because it was promised by the government that the this would happen after the first world war |
