Mr Birling

• “working together for lower costs and higher prices”
• “that has nothing to do with the wretched girls suicide”
• His capitalist ideology of everything revolves around profits and the pursuit of wealth
• pompous perspective - after gerald and Sheila engagement he toasts to “lower costs and higher prices” - self absorbed
• “(unhappily) Look, Inspector -I’d give thousands - yes thousands-” attempts to bribe the inspector to prevent losing wealth and social status through the criminal record - individualistic and capitalism
• “ the Titanic - unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”

  
  

  the dramatic irony represents his overconfidence in capitalist progress