AIC power quotes

Question 1

Birling - We look forward to a time when Crofts and Birlings aren’t competing but are working together - for lower costs and higher prices.

Gerald - Hear hear

Answer 1

• Birling/Gerald symbolise ….. they are a microcosm of ….
• • ## ‘competing’ vs ‘working together’
• ‘lower costs’ = ‘higher pricies’ =
• foreshadows…. [the class conflict to come?]
• ‘look forward to’ one of many examples of dramatic irony - 1945 audience knows that Birling’s economic optimism is misguided - the good times didn’t come. Priestly is undermining Birling’s credibility in the eyes of the audience

– ‘hear hear’ -