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Mrs Birling - Coggle Diagram
Mrs Birling
'only a boy'
desperately trying to justify her sons actions links to the theme of self deception and a capital society causing corruption
Mrs Birling has just said that the blame is on the father of the baby who 'ought to be dealt with very severely'
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the use of the adverb 'only' highlights how she deceives herself so much that in her eyes her son, a respectable young man, couldn't have possibly done that and so reduces him to a bot, in turn reducing his mistakes to that of childhood misdeeds. But the reality is that Eric is a young man who forced himself upon Eva, assaulting her in w way that was so horrid she would do anything than have to go back to him
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'you'll realise that men with important work to'...'spend nearly all their time and energy on their business'
'you'll realises, links to idea that women in this era were supposed to accept men and like Gerald's behaviour, and the only way to truly alter their lives was through marriage. Mrs Birling is preparing sheila to accept rather than change. women don't have enough power to change
through her understanding of her social hemisphere she knows that love and marriage don't often correlate
'girls of that class'
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'girls' use of a collective noun, Eva is dismissed and generalised as almost immature when she is in fact a young woman
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'I'm Mrs Birling y'know'
nonchalant and self assured tone, highlights how she feels she is superior and free from judgement, this idea she has constructed for herself separates her from the likes of Sheila
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