How Is Eva Smith Presented In The Crucible

Throughout the play, we see how Eva Smith was exploited by each and every character at the dinner party, in different ways.

The first person to take advantage of Eva is Mr Birling: he exploited Eva and his workers for his own gain, he refused them a pay rise, just so his company didn't lose any money. When they went on strike, he used that against them and felt he had a good enough reason to fire Eva and a few others, just because they were a threat to his business and his money making. "Every man for himself." This shows Mr Birling felt he had to look after his own before Eva, this is the type of attitude a capitalist portrays. Priestley wanted to promote capitalism in his play and he does this through a bad light using Mr Birling and his