Class Flashcards
(4 cards)
“ if you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d be asking for the Earth.”
Mr. Burling’s opinion on the working class when Mr Burling discusses how he sat to Eva Smith after she had gone on strike he feels that it is his responsibility to calm down.” sharply” on.” these people.” Suggests Mr Burling use the working class as a separate group dehumanising them but they’re not as important as him a wealthy class . Representing capitalist self interest reveals his belief in maintaining strict social hierarchy punching those who challenge them which in this case is the lower class .Priestly wanted the audience to realise that this is the wrong attitude to have and we should be looking after these people not punishing them.
Using Mr Burling to represent the selfish and out of touch capitalist class of Berlin believe in workers should be punished asking for better to pay a small reasonable request and preseason intention is to see the injustice office mindset 
“ as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!”
This is the behaviour of Mrs Burling‘s opinion on the working class when she is discussing the moment when Eva approached her charity Mrs Berlin refers to Eva as a” girl of that sort” she clearly has preconceptions about working class girls suggesting that they lack morals and will always take money reducing her to a type someone from the lower class and she sees as morally inferior this dehumanising language suggest that Mrs Berlin lose all working class women are greedy dishonest and unworthy of help and all the exact same. His intention is to expose how the upper-class often judge and stereotype the poor without understanding circumstances
Dramatic irony is also shown when Mrs Berlin condemns Eva for refusing stolen money which came from Eric assuming that she must’ve accepted it but the origin knows Eva actually showed integrity. This makes us spread and seen both wrong and cruel reinforcing her moral blindness. Priestly uses this RNA to show that those who think they are morally superior are often the most corrupt or ignorant 
“” but these girls aren’t cheap labour-their people@
She begins to reject her families class based thinking and recognises the workers as human beings not just tools for profit. Recognising the humanity of the workers something her parents dismiss the phrase “ cheap labour “ shows how capitalistic employers like her father view workers purely in terms of economic wealth not as individuals His intention of this is to show how the younger generation can change and learn to see beyond class. 
Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices.
In the phrase”..” Eric questions the double standards of capitalism where his father a business owner is free to raise prices for profit but the workers I punish for asking for pay his rhetorical question highlights the injustice and inequality built into the car system that the high class have a better way of right and are more important intention shows that even those reasons privileged like they are capable of recognising the unfairness of capitalism when they stopped accepting it blindly representing that class isn’t everything and shouldn’t be
