Arguably‚ Priestley uses Sheila Birling as a vehicle to explore a diverse range of ideas‚ from the issue of gender roles and stereotypes through the idea of socialism and the need of shared responsibility with which Priestley himself occupied. Sheila can be seen as a representation of people changing their attitude and approaches through mistakes. Priestley seems to use her to encourage people to change and not to stepping back into the period before the world war happened where people only cares
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Sheila Birling is a character that goes through an intense and rapid character development throughout ‘An Inspector Calls’‚ transitioning from a naïve and privileged upper-class self-centred young lady to a woman who is able to stand up to her parents and present her own opinions representing Priestley’s ideologies of socialism. In Act 1‚ Sheila appears very naïve and obsessed with her engagement. She also goes to lengths to impress Gerald by flirting with him and joking to show him that she is entertaining
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In what ways are the characters of Sheila and Eric Birling important in this play? Throughout the play Priestly plays on the idea of community and how our own actions can have a huge effect on others. This was a revolution in the time of when “an inspector calls” was set (1912) and was a point which was continuously being argued by socialists‚ or as Arthur Birling calls them “cranks”. Sheila and Eric represent the socialists as they learnt from the inspector that we are all in a community and have
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Once upon a time‚ there was a girl named Sheila Dinh. Her personality can be described as enigmatic: content yet distressed‚ intelligent yet lacking common sense‚ sagacious yet puerile‚ confident yet feeble‚ fashionable yet basic‚ social yet antisocial‚ and the list goes on. Someone who knows her--as in someone who spends most of their waking moments to communicate with this young one--would say she is the most perplex being on Earth. Perhaps‚ such a bizarre statement is an exaggeration. However
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How Does J.B. Priestley Develop Sheila’s Character During The Course Of The Play Sheila Birling is the character that changes the most in J.B. Priestley’s play ’An Inspector Calls’. She is introduced as a childish young woman that is treated like an inoffensive girl‚ which is absent-minded about everything that is going on in her relationship with Gerald and in the unjust and partly cruel society she lives in. She changes completely when the Inspector arrives and reveals to them the dramatic
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At the beginning of the play‚ Sheila Birling is Naïve and Vain‚ because shes young‚ carefree‚ happy and about to engaged to be married to Gerald Croft. However at the end of the play she is a totally different character because she is much wiser and mature. Firstly Sheila Birling is shown as naïve ‘very pleased with life and rather excited’ She doesn’t have a care in the world and has grown up in a wealthy family where she has had little troubles and probably doesn’t have a lot of knowledge
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