Mr Birling

• What is the significance of Mr Birlings repetitive use of personal pronouns within his first speech?

  its a speech about his daughter getting engaged, yet he proceeds to make it all about him
• ‘Lower costs and higher prices’
• ‘Silly little war scares‘
• What is the impact of Mr Birlings repetition of ‘hard headed business man’/‘hard headed man on business‘?

  comfort, repetition in order to prove himself
• how Does priestly create dislike towards Mr Birling?

  he is arrogant and determined in his beliefs which we as an audience know to be wrong
• ‘Titanic…unsinkable‘ - Mr Birling
• ‘Man has to make his own way’
• ‘If you don't come down hard on these people they will soon be asking for the world‘ - mr Birling