A.I.C Themes: Class
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- Created on: 26-05-14 10:25
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- Class
- Attitudes to upper class
- Mr Birling
- Keen to be knighted to cement his hard fought rise to the upper class
- Mrs Birling
- Socially superior to Mr Birling.
- Sheila
- Happy spending time in expensive shops.
- Gerald
- Prepared to marry Sheila despite her lower social position.
- Eric
- Awkward about his his lowerer class life
- Mr Birling
- Attitudes to lower class
- Mr Birling
- Cheap labour
- Mrs Birling
- A presumptious upstart
- Sheila
- Somone who could be fired out of spite
- Gerald
- A mistress who could be discarded at will.
- Eric
- Easy sex at the end of a drunken night out.
- Mr Birling
- Apart from Edna, the maid, the cast does not include any lower class characters,
- However, we learn a lot about the lower class as we hear about each stage in Eva;s life.
- Priestly is trying to show that the upper classes are unaware that the easy lives they lead rest upon heard work of the lower classes.
- Attitudes to upper class
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