Themes

Question 1

What is social responsibility?

Answer 1

The idea that people in a society have a duty to look after everyone else.
‘We are all members of one body’

Question 2

What is social class?

Give an example

Answer 2

How people from some social classes treat people from other social classes
‘Girls of that class’ Mrs Birling doesn’t care about anyone in the other class(lower)

Question 3

What is gender inequality? Give an example

Answer 3

How ideas about gender influence the way people are expected to act
Girls are supposed to stay home while men do business.

Question 4

How does age affect views?

Give an example?

Answer 4

How age affects people’s views of other people and their willingness to change
Sheila doesn’t act immature anymore she changes and knows she’s responsible for someone’s death

Question 5

Reputation?

Give an example?

Answer 5

How some people are more concerned with outward appearances than about doing what’s morally right.
When Mrs Birling doesn’t help the girl just because the girl called herself mrs birling as mrs birling doesn’t want her name to look bad.