Goodnight.” These last words from the inspector are the antithesis of what Mr Birling said‚ Mr Birling says “Every man for himself”‚ and the inspector says the complete opposite ’we are responsible for each other.’ The inspector is very uncanny. This means strange but familiar. He is systematic to how he goes round the whole of the Birling family. He is omnipotent (All Knowing) because he tricks the whole of the Birling family into thinking that the inspector know everything about this Eva Smith
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views of a socialist and Mr. and Mrs. Birling presenting their capitalist views. ’The Inspector’ is also seen as the mouth piece of Priestley as
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and Priestley show this at many points in their texts. Both Eva Smith and Curley’s wife are victims of their class as Eva is victimised by each member of the Birling Family‚ who each make her life harder and each of them are ultimately partially responsible for her death. Inspector Goole also makes it clear to the reader and the Birling family that Eva is the victim when he says ‘A pretty lively sort of girl that never did anybody any harm.’ The character of Eva also conveys how hard life was for
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At the beginning of the extract the Inspector says “She wasn’t very pretty ... very pretty.” In my opinion the Inspector says this to try and give the Birlings a ‘guilt trip’. Mr. Birling reacts by almost telling the Inspector off‚ as if he were a child‚ “That’s enough of that”‚ it sounds like something he would say to Sheila or Eric. The reason he says this is most probably because he feels that he is better and more important than the Inspector and that he can tell the Inspector what to do. The
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class. This is the class in which the Birling family are from. Mr Birling’s new arrival into the Middle classes was due to his wealth‚ which he earned through his trade. Throughout the play‚ Mr Birling desperately tries to protect his chances of getting a knighthood‚ and foolishly attempts to use his social superiority to undermine the Inspector’s authority. "I was an alderman for years- and Lord Mayor two years ago- and I’m still on the bench." Ms Birling also tries to use her husband’s social
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with females being treated differently to Males. The Birlings and Gerald Croft are both of a higher class with Edna‚ the maid‚ and Eva Smith being lower class women. As Edna is the maid you would think that she is of low importance to the play but this is not the case as she is the only one in the play of the same social class as Eva Smith and knows what it
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Plot 1. The Birling Family and Gerald Croft are having a celebratory dinner. 2. Just as Mr Birling is at his most confident; an inspector arrives to investigate a suicide. 3. Mr Birling reveals he sacked Eva Smith. 4. Sheila explains that she had Eva sacked from her next job and Milwards. 5. Gerald recognises the name Daisy Renton 6. Gerald admits that he kept Daisy as his mistress. 7. Mrs Birling tells the group that she denied help to a pregnant girl when she went to Mrs Birling’s charity
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the Birling family were not guilty of any crimes when the play was set. However‚ the Birling family are an upper class family and have each played a part in the girl’s suicide‚ some more than others‚ and this is what will be discussed in this essay. Eva’s troubles begin when she is working for head of the Birling family‚ Mr Arthur Birling. Mr Birling tells the inspector that ‘she’d been working in one of our(his) machine shops for over a year. A good worker too”. Unfortunately‚ Mr Birling discharged
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start of the play also tell us that Mr. Birling is a “heavy looking‚ rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech”‚ this suggests that his character is very self involved. During one of Mr. Birling’s speeches about Gerald and Sheila’s engagement he says to Gerald “Your father and I have been friendly rivals in business for some time now – though Crofts Limited are both older and bigger than Birling and Company – and now you’ve brought us
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England‚ 1912. The main family in the play is the Birling family which consists of Arthur Birling the main character‚ Sybil Birling his wife‚ Sheila Birling his daughter and Eric Birling his son. There is also Gerald Croft who is planning on marrying Sheila. In the opening they are in their dining room which is a ‘fairly large suburban house’ implying they are of middle class‚ but rising up and probably at the higher end of the spectrum. Arthur Birling is seen by the audience when the curtains go up
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