men and women

• women stereotypes


  wear pretty cloths - enjoy shopping - gossip - plan events such as weddings - obey their husbands - be protected

  traits - pride, jealous, funny
• men stereotypes


  work - make money - protect women

  often drunk - 'that state'
• men 


  sleep around -

  ' I suppose it was inevitable she was young and pretty' - Gerald

  'broke out and had a bit of fun sometimes' - Mr Birling
• women


  protected from 'unpleasant and disturbing' matters
• young women - Sheila and Eva - challenge stereotypes


  Eva wanted a higher wage - women = paid less as they were seen as the lesser gender

  Eva didn't accept the stolen money - didn't rely on Eric (man)

  Sheila interrupts and challenges everyone
• end of play - stereotypes are chaos


  Men are seen as weaker then Sheila - she admits what she's done and changes - shows remorse

  Sheila denies Gerald proposal again - she doesn't think of marriage as main priority

  Sheila states her own opinions
• Edna - women 


  lower class women who was a maid - treated badly - shows how the working class, especially the women were mistreated by their employees 'ring'
• Mr Birling 


  'Hard-headed business man' - shows he runs a business

  drink port - smokes cigars
• Mrs Birling - women


  only on the Brumley's women's Organisation for the looks

  lets the men talk about their business at the end of A1 and withdraws to the drawing room

  explains to Shelia about married life - how men were often away on 'business trips'
• Sheila


  materialistic - 'I will never let it go out of my sight' - engagement ring

  immature - 'mummy' and 'daddy' - she's a women and has been shielded from the harshness of the world

  talks about cloths to Mrs Birling in the drawing room

  treated as inferior - 'I think Miss Birling ought to be excused' - Gerald

  'your forgetting I'm supposed to be engaged to a hero' - sarcasm - not following standard I want to get married protocol
• Gerald


  palace bar - went for women

  'I don't get involved with this suicide business' - shows the arrogance and ignorance of the upper class men - 'business = men
• Eric


  'I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty'

  alcohol - a lot of Victorian men were alcoholic - blames alcohol for decisions

  doesn't see long term consequences - steal money, asks Eva to marry him
• Eva


  no dialogue - women had no rights, no voice - a man has to speak for her

  not seen on stage - women's presence should be felt, not seen or heard

  gets objectified by everyone

  Palace bar - hard times she turned to prostitution

  hard worker with strong morals but nothing to show for it