Shelia Birling Quotes Flashcards
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What does the quote “she was a very pretty girl too… I couldn’t be sorry for her”
The adjective pretty shows that Shelia felt insecure about her appearance and jealous of Eva’s beauty and used her influence punish her for having this beauty. This shows the difference in power between the upper middle class and lower middle classes and power indifference
In the quote “these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people”
In the nouns girls and people and the adjective cheap show how disgusted with how her father views women like Eva and in a dehumanising way and she tries to humanise Eva by trying to say that he should look at her as a human and not trash
In the quote “ you don’t seem to have learnt-anything”
And shoes how’s she’s completely changed by the end of the play and is angry at her parents for their refusal to evolve. And shown in the pronouns you shows how accusatory she is and how this is a declarative sentence to show how disgusted she is
And in the quote “I know I’m to blame I’m desperately sorry shows how
How she feels very self recriminatory with the role she played in her suicide. This is in contrast to the beginning how she’d call her mom mummy and pleased with life and naive. And the pronouns I, I’m, I’m is repeated and the adjective desperately shows the massive metamorphosis of her character.
