AIC Flashcards
(11 cards)
Capitalism and patriarchy.
“Working together for lower costs and higher prices.”
“A man has to make his own way, has to look after himself, and his family too, of course.”
He’s a notorious womanizer as well as being a heavy drinker.”
Socialism
“Public men, Mr Birling, have responsiblities as well as privilages.”
Adressing patriarchy
“If men will not learn that, then they will be taught it in fire, blood and anguish.”
Class system
“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money.”
“Simply absurd for a girl in her position.”
Anti capitalism
“You musn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl.”
Hypocricy
“That was not one of the things that prejudiced me against her case.” - Can’t see her own prejudice.
Gerald - “We’re respectable citizens not animals.”
Traditional men
“Im rather more -upset- by this business than I probably appear.”
Girls as commodities
“I did keep a girl last summer.”
Sheila
“No he’s giving us rope to hang ourselves.”
Mr Birling
“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble.”
“The germans don’t want war.”
Eric
“I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty.”
