Social Responsibility

• > "Laugh" sees it as a joke and takes it unserious as he thought it was all fake

  > Encourages Sheila to return back into the old generation ways -> links to how "hard-headed" he is

  > He thinks it's all a joke and sees no reason to take responsibility

  "You'll have a good laugh over it yet." Act 3

• > Dismisses socialist views ( Priestly was a socialist.)

  > Nonsense = Childish.

  > Shouldn't share responsibility.

  > THEME = RESPONSIBILITY

  ''community and all that nonsense''
 Act: 1
• > Avoiding responsibility

  > Must have been a common phrase said by upper class men in 1912

  > Pronoun "any" shows how he wants nothing that will taint his reputation

  "I can't accept any responsibility"
Act: 1