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Sybil Birling (Sybil Birling is proud of her social status (Traditional…
Sybil Birling
Sybil Birling is proud of her social status
Traditional values
‘When you’re married you’ll realise...’
Strong set of beliefs
She’s prepared to be cruel
‘I used my influence to have it refused’
Proud
‘I was the only one of you who didn’t give into him’
Prejudiced
‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’
Sybil lives by strict standards
Social standards make her prejudiced towards lower class
‘of that sort’
Her standards make her walk into his trap
Blames the father of the unborn child
Condemns her own son
Sybil supports charity - but she’s not very charitable
Involved with Brumley Women’s Charity
‘deserving cases’
Mrs Birling has authority
‘deserving’
Uses her ‘influence’ to convince the board
Outraged that Eva pretends have the ‘fine feelings’ of a higher class
Mrs Birling doesn’t change
Self-centred
Won’t accept responsibility
‘I accept no blame for it at all’
Doesn’t learn
‘asked him a few questions’
Sybil is Mr Birling’s ‘social superior’
From a family with higher social status
Tells her husband off
‘Tell cook from me’
Always reminding her family to have better manners
Won’t be bossed around
‘You have no power to make me change my mind’
Stage directions show Mrs Birling has her mind made up
Her tone is severe and superior
Mrs Birling answers
‘haughtily’
‘very sharply’
‘bitterly’
Repeatedly tells everyone it was a hoax
‘triumphantly’
Mrs Birling is ‘smiling’
‘amused’