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Mr Birling (Context (dominant male - patriarch who considers himself…
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Quotes
Capitalism
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'I can't accept any responsibility' + 'you're the one I blame for this' - inherent denial in upper classes, fixed ways will not change
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Class
'same port as your father gets' - aspiring to rise to the Crofts' level,
'Gerald and Sheila' - also links to male superiority, shows how Sheila is suddenly insignificant in comparison to Gerald, thinks of Gerald and the business implications before his own daughter
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Character
'not the kind of father a chap could go to' - for all his patriarchal superiority, family came second to money, allowed Eric to fall apart, shows that capitalism causes relationships to suffer
'unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable' - dramatic irony, makes audience uncomfortable and not like him, shows him as ignorant
'the famous younger generation' - shows how he represents the past and should stay in the past, what he belittles is what makes them good people, and society should value that - labour government in 1946
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protects Sheila and Sybil, females, but no one did so for Eva
Context
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represents materialistic and self-serving capitalist, everything that Priestley dislikes about society because he doesn't use his power and wealth to help
old fashioned views - 'a good deal of silly talk' references the liberal majority in 1903-6, when women's suffrage movement emerged and trade unionism began
shows hypocrisy of upper classes who accept rewards and titles from the community but refuse to take responsibility for the same community - 'I'm a public man'
his style of speech undermines the audience's respect for him, broken diction suggests that boasts and bluster cover a lack of logic and intellectual weakness, juxtaposed with confident fluency of the Inspector (socialist)
has authority which is based on money and social prestige, whereas the Inspector has authority which derives from morality and justice, serves as antithesis