Shelia

• Really feel engaged


  adverb

  • Show relationship is superficial
  • is a metaphor for upwards mobility
  • in 1912 women had no political power so economic stability depend on a man
• “The one you wanted me to have ?” 


  Question

  • comfort by finical security so marriage was a finical motivation
• “Fairly substained “ “heavily comfortable“


  Attached to her bourgeoisie lifestyle and benefits from the capitalism
• “No. Not yet. It’s to soon I must think“ act 3 


  Her uncertainty is reflected by a half rejection is a pivotal moment, deciding between capitalism and socialism
• “ it frightens me the way you talk “ act 3


  Reverse syntax

  separated pronoun show generational gap

  however is uncertain about what scaring her is it the way they talk or share in her parents fear their lifestyle will change as of their involvement
• “ impertinent is such a silly word “


  Rejection to her mother

  impertinent implies hierarchy and suggest that inferior can’t to speak up. It’s very classist
• “Mummy“ to “mother “


  No longer using colloquialism

  from childish to formal tone show ms Birling can no longer manipulate her daughter so call her “young woman “
• “You knew it then. You began to learn something.And Now You’ve stopped“ 


  rule of 3

  is memorable as the inspector uses similar dilect of direct terse sentences with rhetorical devices show Shelia as a examples of him understands his moral teaching and that there no threats but realise his omniscient
• “(laughs rather hysterically) why-

  you fool of course he knows she realises his not a threat but relises his omniscience
• “Excused” “hysterical” “behaving like a hysterical child”


  She dismissed by the other characters Gerlad want her excuse for becoming hysterical the adjective is inherently sexist and connotes to a women mental disorder to emotional excess however men utilise to control women displaying unfeminie traits. Mrs birling also does this calling her a hysterical child .
• “These girl aren’t cheap labour - they’re people“
• “It was my own fault“ 


  talkies accountability with personal pronoun
• “Oh-how horrible“ 


  Has a geunine reaction to her death
• Shelia = “ pretty girl in her early twenties,vey pleased with life

  Eva = ‘Twenty- four ‘ ‘very pretty ‘


  Priestly creates similarities to demonstrates the important of women’s upbringing have upon their life by creating a parallel of Shelia high class life to Eva squalor struggles as Shelia ‘very excited‘ whereas Eva has just committed “ suicide“

  he creates these comparisons to enable more empathy and push socialism as their similarities.
• ” No, beacuse I remembered what he said and how he looked, and what he made me feel. Fire blood and anguish“ 


  Shelia is the inspectors proxy ”Fire and blood and anguish" symbolises the potential future consequences of ignoring social responsibility and the suffering caused by the characters' selfish actions and that it not only a didactic play it even more importantly it an anti war play if you support the class system you support war because the upper class push the lower class into war as their disposable the whole of idea of war is another way of making money.