Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mr Birling
- Quotes
- Fiddlesticks! The Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war.’
- It has nothing whatever to do with this wretched girls suicide. Eh, Inspector?’
- Firendly rivals in business.. working together
- a hard headed practical man of business
- Lower costs and higher prices
- ‘Arthur Birling is a heavy looking, rather portentous man’
- The titanic is unsinkable
absolutely unsinkable
- 'Be quiet Sheila’
- But I care. I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List'
- 'Nonsense! You’ll have a good
laugh over it yet!
- Heavy looking
- KEY ESSAY POINTS
- Arrogant
- Dramatic irony
- Capatalist
- Materialistic
- Selfish
- Patriarchal- male dominant
- Manipulative
- Dismissive
- Authorarative
- Perpetual- non changing
- Loquacious- talks a lot
- Rapacious- greedy
- nouveau riche
- Priestley's intentions on Mr Birling
- Being co-founder of a Socialist Party, Priestley felt strongly about his
political views in favour of socialism and these views are displayed
prominently throughout An Inspector Calls.
- Priestly used the character of Mr Birling to represent how
the upper class frowned upon people below them in
society.
- Priestley portrayed the evil side of money and capitalism, as
well as his dislike for capitalism due to the lack of care in
society for the poor
- Portrayed Birling as a typical capatalist
through is arrogance etc