Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Class
- "Arthur you're not
supposed to say such
things,"Mrs Birling, Act 1
- Reflects a hint of her
knowing that she is her
Husband's social superior.
- Much more boisterous
than a woman in
patriarchal 1912 society as
she is correcting her
husband
- She demonstatres with her
interactions with Mr B that
she understands etiquette
- "Now Arthur, I don't think you ought
to talk about business on an occasion
like this," Mrs Birling, Act 1
- Priority is meant to
be celebrating the
union of the socially
superior Gerald and
Sheila
- Keeps reminding her husband
of social rules - keeps talking
about business
- Ironic how so much effort put into being 'seen'
as matching to the conforms of an upper class
dinner parties but doesnt show the basic
standard on fairness and responsibility when
Eva needs her help
- Priestley is critiquing the priorities for Mrs B as focusing too much on how others in their
class might see them. Mr B is shown to also relentlessly bring up business
- "It was simply a piece of gross impertinence... that was
one of the things that prejudiced me against her case,"
Mrs Birling - Act 2
- "AS if a girl of that sort would
ever refuse money,"