How Does Mrs Birling Pretend To Be Something She S Not Throughout An Inspector Calls Harry S Part
How does Mrs Birling pretend to be something she’s not throughout ‘An Inspector Calls’ – Harry’s Part
The next point I wish to make is how Mrs Birling acts as a motherly figure within the Birling family and how her character’s attitude changes to her children as the play develops. Firstly at the beginning of the playing in the Dining room the topic of conversation is the relationship between the characters Sheila and Gerald Croft, Sheila brings up a previous summer ‘(Half serious, half playful) Yes, except for last summer when you never came near me and I wondered what happened to you…’ and Mrs Birling replies ‘Now Sheila don't tease him. When you're married you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend all nearly all their time and energy on their business.’ We can assume as a reader that Mrs Birling knows Gerald cheated on her daughter with another woman, but is not saying anything, as she wants her daughter to be of an upper class by marrying Gerald. Whereas in our day and age a mother would probably not want this to happen and thus showing that Mrs Birling cares much more about social class than her daughter and pretending to be a caring mother.
Continuing further we can analyse Mrs Birling by evaluating her experience with finding out that Eric is the father of Eva Smith's child and when Mrs Birling discovers the truth about her son she becomes very refusing about the fact. ‘I don't believe it I won't believe it’ and ‘Beside you're not that type- you don't get drunk’ and is very quick to drop the motherly visage and gives up on her son again ‘I simply couldn’t stay there’ pretending to be a loving mother until things go wrong.
Another point of significance is how Mrs Birling perceives herself in her charity work and how she was prejudice against Eva Smith’s case. Firstly she boasts about her work 'Yes, we’ve done a great deal of work helping deserving cases’ here Mrs Birling does not hold back to boast about her ‘magnificent’
The next point I wish to make is how Mrs Birling acts as a motherly figure within the Birling family and how her character’s attitude changes to her children as the play develops. Firstly at the beginning of the playing in the Dining room the topic of conversation is the relationship between the characters Sheila and Gerald Croft, Sheila brings up a previous summer ‘(Half serious, half playful) Yes, except for last summer when you never came near me and I wondered what happened to you…’ and Mrs Birling replies ‘Now Sheila don't tease him. When you're married you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend all nearly all their time and energy on their business.’ We can assume as a reader that Mrs Birling knows Gerald cheated on her daughter with another woman, but is not saying anything, as she wants her daughter to be of an upper class by marrying Gerald. Whereas in our day and age a mother would probably not want this to happen and thus showing that Mrs Birling cares much more about social class than her daughter and pretending to be a caring mother.
Continuing further we can analyse Mrs Birling by evaluating her experience with finding out that Eric is the father of Eva Smith's child and when Mrs Birling discovers the truth about her son she becomes very refusing about the fact. ‘I don't believe it I won't believe it’ and ‘Beside you're not that type- you don't get drunk’ and is very quick to drop the motherly visage and gives up on her son again ‘I simply couldn’t stay there’ pretending to be a loving mother until things go wrong.
Another point of significance is how Mrs Birling perceives herself in her charity work and how she was prejudice against Eva Smith’s case. Firstly she boasts about her work 'Yes, we’ve done a great deal of work helping deserving cases’ here Mrs Birling does not hold back to boast about her ‘magnificent’