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Mr Birling - Coggle Diagram
Mr Birling
'giving us the port, Edna?'
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its an order phrased as a rhetorical question, could link to capitalists exploiting the working classes, acting as if they gave them the choice, when the reality is different
clear division in social classes, edna isn't part of the celebration, only there to facilitate them
first time: focus on consumerism, wealth and attempts to impress Gerald- performative question
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'unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable'
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also becomes a metaphor for the british manufacturing industry, which had seemed unsinkable since 1870 but it is well and truly sunk by 1945, example of capitalists failing and exploiting the working class in the process
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'leave this to us'
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Priestley is highlighting how socialism is needed and through that a balance not only between men and women, but between generations and the classes to avoid future wars
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