Quotes of Mrs Birling

• ‘ men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business’

  ACT 1 - mrs birling plays into the patriarchal society as she doesn’t work and believes men should be the workers in the family
• ‘Really the things you girls pick up these days,

  ACT 1 - Mrs Birling is traditional traditional and fixes her ways
• [‘mrs Birling enters, briskly and self confidently]’

  Act 2- Mrs Birling is self assured , powerful and not afraid to speak her mind.
• ‘Girls of that class’

  ACT 2 - mrs Birling looks down people that are social class than herself
• ‘You’re behaving like a hysterical child tonight‘’Dont be childish Shiela‘

  ACT 2 - refuses to believe Sheila is an adult now and therefore doesn’t treat her like one
• ‘I don’t believe it. I won’t believe it’

  ACT 2 - mrs Burling is stubborn and stuck in her ways and refuses to accept responsibility
• ‘I’ve done nothing wrong’

  ACT 2 - refuses to take responsibility and is convinced she can’t do wrong
• ‘go look for the father of your child, it’s has responsibilit’

  ACT 2 - the blame to anyone but herself not realising Eric is the father
• ‘You don’t get drunk’

  ACT 3 - Mrs Birling doesn’t want to that her family may be in the wrong