Mr Birling Key Quotes Flashcards
“Lower costs…”
“Lower cost higher prices”
This is when they were trying to get the two families to work together to make more profit and shows he is only looking at the money side of things, and her wealth plays the factor in today’s society
“Unsinkable…”
“Unsinkable absolutely unsinkable”
This is dramatic irony
Mr Birling is the microcosm of capitalism
Mr Burling is ignorant
Sibilance and could say that he is going to sink just like the Titanic
“A man must…”
“a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own, and-“
He is cut off by the doorbell
Was in a speech about his strong capitalistic views
The inspector walks in
“All mixed…”
“All mixed up together like bees in a hive”
Where Mr Burling is mocking socialism and their ideas
The belief that different classes shouldn’t mix
“Its my duty…”
“It’s my duty to keep labour cost down”
He calls Eva labour and dehumanises her
Shows how workers are mostly women were exploited by the Morwell fee classes, and those who had power
“The famous…”
“The famous younger generation who know it all”
This is where at the end of the play he is mocking the younger generation as he does not want change even at the end of the play
