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• Birling family's house


  • Large
  • Good solid furniture
• Props and costumes


  • Champagne glasses
  • Cigars
  • Decanter of port
• Maid, Edna


  Indication of the Birling family's wealth
• Birling family


  Upper middle class family in 1912
• Displaying wealth and asserting social position


  Way for upper middle class family to do so in 1912
• Birling


  Not from an aristocratic family, benefited from the Industrial Revolution
• Birling's occupation


  Prosperous manufacturer
• Birling's accent


  Provincial, revealing more modest beginning
• Industrial revolution


  Allowed industrialists to become of higher class due to the wealth they had created
• Mrs. Birling


  Her husband's social superior
• Class


  Source of tension in the Birling marriage
• Birling


  Anxious about his class
• Arthur's attitude towards Sheila and Gerald's marriage


  Thrilled, as it represents the opportunity for his family to climb the social ladder