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How does Priestly present the Birling family as upper class? - Coggle…
How does Priestly present the Birling family as upper class?
Business
"no longer competing but are working together"
lots of income from work
more power than other people
one of the very few people with alot of money
Objects
"we'll drink their health"
drinking a sign of wealth
"isn't it a beauty" - engagement ring
expensive
excited over materialism
"lights his cigar"
power since commercialisation
represents wealth and class
Edna the slave
not careful with money
power over people
People
Mr Birling
selfish
arrogance
capitalist in the Edwardian society
His reputation is all what matters not the death
"public scandal"
how people view him
Gerald
Gerald's family own land, and are socially superior to Arthur's inherited money had a high status than trade
Sheila
she treats working class women different
talked down to Eva Smith
Priestley's view - class shouldn't matter
The Birling family think that class is all what matters, but priestly is trying to present the opposite view.
Eva Smith refuses to take the stolen money, even when she is desperate
Behaviour
Repetition of social responsibility
class is part of the plot
"What did you say you name was"
talking down to the inspector (working class)