AIC Analysis Flashcards
(54 cards)
But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people
-Socialist subconscious hidden under her parents influence
-‘Girls’ can connote innocence and shows the exploitation of the vulnerable in society
-‘Cheap’ can connote monetary value, so although Shiela is recognising the immoralities of capitalism, the capitalist ideologies of viewing people in terms of status are deeply ingrained in her as she has be ceaselly indoctrinated by capitalism
-‘Cheap Labour’ has a plosive B and P sound to signify how Shiela has been realised the harsh and barbaric exploitation that is permitted by capitalists and is personified by his relationship with Evs
Half-shy, half-playful
-Designed to show the socialist message from the beginning
-Juxtaposing phrases create unease an foreshadows the inspectors visit and how they are about to change
-Oblivious to the suffering of the lower classes
Very pleased with life
-Oblivious to the suffering of the lower classes
-In a bubble protecting her from the realities of life and wearing rose tinted glasses
-Ignorance that lead to WW1 and WW2, as shown in Eva’s death
Mummy and daddy to Mother and Father
-Contrasts Eva who endures the loss of her two parents
-initial childish colloquialism
-Adapted to a more sophisticated manner after the inspectors visit
-Dramatic transformation away from capitalist ideologies
-Represents Shiela’s journey to maturity
We really must stop these silly pretences
-Talking to Mrs Birling highlighting the generational divide
-‘Really’ is an intensifier to show how strongly she believes in this statement
-Sees the denial of social responsibility and reflects Priestleys views
-‘Must’ is a modal auxiliary verb showing her pleading and that she is now disciplining her parents
So I’m really responsible?
-Immediate guilt and remorse to show her potential to change
-Recognises her role and the guilt she should feel
-Questioning tone shows how she is looking for guidance from the inspector and is able to still be influenced by socialism dispute MR Birlings influence
-Difference in the generation as Sheila is acting responsibility and not deflecting blame
-Highlighting how young women are taking greater social and political roles
Pretty girl in her early twenties
-Doesn’t have much value past marriage and children
-Immauturity
-Sheltered life and hasn’t taken life seriously unlike Eva who had maturity thrust upon her
-Originally seen as inferior in the patriarchal society and Shiela is a product of middle/upper class elitism
-Womans value in her looks
-Vanity is her fatal flaw (foreshadows)
We drove that girl to suicide
-Thinking like the Inspector and no longer sharing the capitalism viewpoint of her parents
-Become blunt and oralismed
-‘We have to share our guilt’
I tell you - That inspector was anything but a joke
-You get generation have the ability to change and understand the inspectors message
-Tales up the mantel of the Inspectors truth
-Character development as Shiela has matured
-‘Tell’ is an imperative Verb to establish Shiela as assertive and reversed the role from Mr Birling
We hear a sharp doorbell ring
-Signals the arrival of socialism and the character to interrupt Mr Birlings arrogant assumptions
-‘Sharp’ shows the divide between the two ideologies
-Foreshadows the Birilings letting capitalism enter their home like how Priestley was socialism to enter post war Engand
-‘Sharp’ awakening
Pink and Intimate to Bright and Harder
-Juxtaposition
-removal of rose-tinted glasses
-‘Pink’ creates a sense of warmth and happiness
-‘harder’ connotes rigid and not easily broken. Suggests the Inspector will not be intimidated by the Birlings
An impression of massiveness, solidarity and purposefulness
-Semantic field showing the Inspectors sheer importance and power
-Words appear visually long and heightening the Inspectors power
-Disruption of the Birling’s heirarchy
One line of enquiry at a time
-Inspector Goole controls the pace of the play
-Used by Priestley to expose all of the crimes by the family in a methodical, ruthless and efficient way
-Allows each person to reflect of their actions individually
We are members of one body
-Antithesis of Mr Birling as his socialist views premote compassion for everyone of all backgrounds
-‘A man has to look after himself’
-Anaphora
-United society
Burnt her insides out
-Blunt language to show that Goole will not sugar coat anything and force the family to feel guilt
-Priestely’s use of dramatic and graphic language and violent verb ‘burnt’ to evoke an emotional response from the audience and the post War society
-Gory images make the audience feel guilt when they realise their guilt and ignorance to the struggles of the working calss
-Language persuade the audience to feel sympathy for Eva Smith (whose suicide is a metaphor for the continuous struggles of the working class)
We have to share our guilt
-Forcing the Birlings to take accountability
-Socialist ideologies that wealth should be shared out equally instead of the upper classes being greedy
-Priestely wants the upper and middle classes to transform from abusing their power to dominate and exploit the working class to being responsible for the actions and treat people more sympathetically
-Implies everyone should do the same and follow the Inspectors teachngs
-‘We’ suggests to give society unity and to switch to socialism
Fire and Blood and Anguish
-Written and preformed before the end of the Second World War to show the contemporary audience the perpetual cycle of suffering
-Rule of Three to contrast the two world wars and the inevitable fate of a third if people don’t change
-Used as a motif of War and if society does not change war will continue in an endless cycle until people learn
-Connote hell and biblical imagry
-Battelfields of World War One
-Wars are parallel to Eva’s death
-Hell imagery to show the eternal suffering of society unless there is change
He certainly didn’t make me confess
-Accepting responsibility is a loss of power and how capitalists view responsibility as a loss of power
-Trying to reassert dominance over the Inspector
-‘Confess’ suggests crime and punishment
-Ridding herself of responsibility and wants to uphold the public facade
A cold woman
–Oxymoron of the time as she showed little emotion
-Detached attitude towards suffering is irrational and unnatural of women in 1912
-Women were supposed to be maternal and sensitive
When we want coffeee
-Domestic staff had diminished
-Connote the power of money over the poor
-Exposes Mrs Burlings treatment of Enda as she is forced to work long and hard for her wage
-Dehumanising
Go look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility
-Bossy and authorative tone, highlighting her self importance and power she believes she has
-Proleptic irony as Eric is the father
-Deflecting blame onto someone else
-Unknowingly incriminates Eric and the family
Her husband’s social superior
-Represents pride
-Obessesion with social classes is introduced
-‘Superior’ shows the growing divide between classes
-Not introduced by her name but her gender to show her minimal imapct on society and why she runs a charity not a company
Girls of the class
-Classic prejudices and stereotypes
-Values her own social and moral standing above Eva’s as she suggests the immorality surrounding the lower classes
-Microcosm for the upper classes prejudices
-Eva is condemned and excluded from charitable support. Lack of welfare presents Eva as vulnerable and easily exploited as she is pregnant
She only had herself to blame
-Resembles the moral corruption of the upper class views
-Deflecting responsibility
-she is Attributing blame to the victim
