mr birling

• Priestly immediately highlights the division in Birlings home and wider society.
• The Germans don't war and I say there isn't a chance of war.
• Adamant there won't be a war, the idea of a war occurring is 'Poppycock' which dismisses anyone who claims it could happen.
• The play is written in the first person singular, with Birling stating his own view, not that of the government and monarch, demonstrating self-importance.
• The Titanic was described as unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable, focusing on the glorified advertising of the useless upper class vessel.
• The words 'unsinkable' and 'absolutely' establish the arrogance of Birling and the upper class.