Social Responsibility

• > Shows Eric's maturity and is a link to Priestley's message of the upper class to take accountability of their actions

  > Repetition of phrase magnifies his insistence for a change in mindset of his parents


  "we all helped kill her" x2 Act 3

• > Relationship between Eric and Mr Birling is not close and trusting

  > Mr Birling is too infatuated with money than him (Capitalist)

  > THEME: Family

  " you're not the kind of father a chap could go to" Act 3