Being a self-made businessman, Mr. Birling believes strongly in individualism and has a Capitalist ideology. He says “a man has to make his own way-he has to look after himself-and his family too, ofcourse, when he has one- and so long as he does he won’t come to much harm”. He is against the idea of community, and makes that very clear when he says, “you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive- community and all that nonsense.” We can tell that he
Being a self-made businessman, Mr. Birling believes strongly in individualism and has a Capitalist ideology. He says “a man has to make his own way-he has to look after himself-and his family too, ofcourse, when he has one- and so long as he does he won’t come to much harm”. He is against the idea of community, and makes that very clear when he says, “you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive- community and all that nonsense.” We can tell that he