social responsibility

• Birling


  community is responsibility is nonsense - people need to be more interested in their own businesses like he is - workers rights don't matter
• Mrs Birling


  the middle/upper class have no responsibility for the lower class - she believes helping them is pointless as they can't be changed
• Sheila


  realises er actions towards Eva were irresponsible, she shouldn't have gotten her fired from Millwards
• Eric


  accepts responsibility - his actions were self centred and destroyed Eva's chances of gaining a better life
• The Inspector's main focus


  his final speech is clear - a summary of social responsibility

  he wanted to reveal to the family the hardships of the working class - 'Millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths'
• different types of responsibility

  • the Inspectors responsibility to ensure the family got the message
  • the Birling's and Gerald accepting responsibility for Eva's death and trying to change
  • The capitalist feel it is their responsibility to find out who the Inspector was
• reveals Priestley's social attitude

  • how he supports socialism - he critiques the capitalists a lot - shows how problems in society are there because of class divide
  • not just social responsibility but how everyone is responsible for their own actions
  • when Birling shows his idea's about socialism they are likely to disagree with him due to previous comments - titanic and WW1/WW2
• responsibility


  having a duty to deal with something

  being accountable for the blame of an event