Mrs. Birling Molly Caitlin Ellie Mrs. Birling is the wife of Arthur Birling and is the mother to Sheila and Eric. There are some important aspects to the character‚ which we will look into today. These are: What Mrs. Birling represents‚ the difference between the generations‚ her relationships with her husband and Inspector Goole‚ her presence on stage and our reaction to her as an audience. Mrs. Birling is a typical upper class woman‚ who behaves‚ as she would be expected to. Women were considered
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The fool In the play King Lear by William Shakespeare‚ the fool plays a very significant role. Shakespeare uses the fool as comic relief‚ as well as commentator on Lear’s mistake. The fool helps to highlight the plight of the tragic hero‚ challenging the King’s frenzy with his jokes‚ riddles and songs. His speeches are full of wit and wisdom‚ pointing out Lear’s foolishness‚ and appealing to the slight sense of sanity that still exists. The fool’s main purpose in the play is to make the king see
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The Fool – King Lear The Royal Shakespeare Company writes of the Fool: There is no contemporary parallel for the role of Fool in the court of kings. As Shakespeare conceives it‚ the Fool is a servant and subject to punishment (’Take heed‚ sirrah – the whip ’ 1:4:104) and yet Lear’s relationship with his fool is one of friendship and dependency. The Fool acts as a commentator on events and is one of the characters (Kent being the other) who is fearless in speaking the truth. The Fool provides wit
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conscience‚ which‚ when you think about it‚ is what the Inspector tried to do; get the characters to appeal to their conscience. Now Eric‚ along with Sheila‚ both give real‚ emotional responses to the death of Eva/Daisy‚ whereas Gerald and Mr/Mrs Birling didn’t. Talk about that; surely as responsible‚ wealthy adults‚ they should be the mature ones‚ accepting responsibility and taking the blame. Yet it took the youngest child to accept fault. Also talk about the actual faults of Eric. If i’m right
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She is described at the start as "about fifty‚ a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior." • She is a snob‚ very aware of the differences between social classes. She is irritated when Mr Birling makes the social gaffe of praising the cook in front of Gerald and later is very dismissive of Eva‚ saying "Girls of that class." • She has the least respect for the Inspector of all the characters. She tries - unsuccessfully - to intimidate him and force him to leave‚ then lies to
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Character Analysis Eric Birling I think that J B Priestly put Eric Birling in the play ‘An Inspector Calls’ because he is an interesting character‚ and is not quite like the rest of his family. Eric is a young man living at home with his parents (Arthur and Sybil Birling) and his sister (Sheila Birling). He is the son of a prosperous manufacturer living in a large suburban house. Eric comes from an upper class family. His mother is a prominent member of the Brumley Woman’s Charity Organization
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his inability to analyse the world around him (Future speeches pg. 6‚ 7). Speeches are used as a device by Priestley to show Birling’s naïveté (ignorance)‚ as all that he predicts is wrong (play written with benefit of hindsight in 1945). Mr. Birling is almost a stereotype/caricature of the capitalistic businessman its inherent callous heartlessness. Note references to capitalism (pg. 6‚ 7)‚ business (pg. 6 "hard headed businessman‚" 10 "mind his own business") and profit (pg. 14‚ 15). He is
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At the beginning of the play‚ Sheila Birling is Naïve and Vain‚ because shes young‚ carefree‚ happy and about to engaged to be married to Gerald Croft. However at the end of the play she is a totally different character because she is much wiser and mature. Firstly Sheila Birling is shown as naïve ‘very pleased with life and rather excited’ She doesn’t have a care in the world and has grown up in a wealthy family where she has had little troubles and probably doesn’t have a lot of knowledge
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Fool’s Gold Play Review The play that I’m doing my review on is called Fool’s Gold and it is a Commedia Dell’Arte play. Fool’s gold was produced by Meta Physical Theatre and directed by David Langlois. In Fool’s Gold the Miser‚ Pantalone is greedy for money so he gets together with Dottore and they fake a disease which will persuade his daughter‚ Isabella into marrying Count Viagra‚ who is very rich. Viagra already payed his father Pantalone for his daughter’s hand in marriage so Pantalone tricks
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Study Arthur Birling Arthur Birling is a wealthy‚ self-made middle class factory owner of the Edwardian era. We first learn about him from the stage directions. Priestley describes him as ‘rather portentous’ suggesting he is serious and self-important. This characterises his attitude throughout the play where his sense of standing in society and the rights this affords him‚ prevent him from learning the lesson of responsibility that forms the main theme of the play. Birling is also an opinionated
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