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Social Class - Coggle Diagram
Social Class
Act One
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"fairly large suburban house belonging to a prosperous manafacturer. It has good solid furniture of the period. The general effect is substantial and heavily comfortable, but not cosy and homelike"
"And we're in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity [...] there'll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere"
"But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense".
"I have an idea that your mother - Lady Croft - while she doesn't object to my girl - feels you might have done better for yourself socially"
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"If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the Earth"
"But after all, it's better to ask for the Earth than to take it"
"I can't help thinking about this girl - destroying herself so horribly - and I've been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn't told me"
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Act Two
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"I don't suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class - "
"I think it was simply a piece of gross impertinence - quite deliberate - and naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case"
"was giving herself ridiculous airs. She was claiming fine feelings that were simply absurd in a girl in her position"
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"(staggered) Well, really! Alderman Meggarty! I must say, we are learning something tonight"
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