Class act 1

• She is a paragon of the aristocratic women during the Edwardian era
• As a married women if the upper class, she is secure, almost help in aspic within the hard wired conventions of a capitalist and classist society, thus anything that threatens these conventions threatens her
• Quote = “ husbands social superior”
• Priestly satirises a society that allows humans to be defined by their role or purpose Whithorn the class system
• By extension it seems she is commodified, values based on what can be achieved from marrying her as opposed to value based on moral judgement= creates an environment in which she can act ignorantly and reject responsibility for her actions. This is realised throughout the play
• She is also the only character to not be named in the intro. she is referred to as Arthur birling ”wife” which suggests her social role, Dehumanises her and detaches her from any sense if being