• Birling bubble -> comfort, safety 
• perfection, privelaged life
• adjectives show B’s content with capatalist life

• interrogation, intimidation -> truth will come out 
• lighting change reveal the truth of the B’s (bursting their bubble)
• Priestley shows he wants to expose truth of privilege and suffering caused

• exploits workers -> capitalist views
• only cares about self gain -> individualist views
• mr B, by proxy, bourgeoisie who exploits proletariats

Mr B quotes 
‘lower costs and higher prices’

• sank in 1912 -> represents Edwardian ‘Golden Age’ 
• dramatic irony -> audience will view him as foolish arrogant 
• repetition emphasises views on Titanic being the best -> dogmatic (set on own ways)

Mr B quotes
‘the Titanic… unsinkable absolutely unsinkable’

• bourgeoisie doesn’t like idea of everyone grouped together 
• simile ‘we’ = bourgeoisie (superior), ‘bees’ = proletariat (inferior) -> diveded classes
• bees collectively benefit from each other -> socialist views vs. B individualist ideologies 

Mr B quotes 
‘as if we were all mixed up together like bees in and hive and all that nonsense’

• not serious, not real, lie
• reflects bourgeoisie views on proletariats conditions -> ignorant to their suffering 
• in denial of their actions and consequences 
• B is impervious to Goole’s (+Priestley) socialist views 

Mr B quotes 
‘ joke’ ‘hoax’ ‘bluff’

•  stage directions
• emotionless -> opposite of maternal figure, shows unkind treatment 
• microcosm of bourgeoisie women lack of compassion 
• status is important to her

Mrs B quotes
‘a rather cold women and her husband’s social superior’

• collective noun phrase-> all proletariat are the same (desperate)
• Priestley denounce abuse of position and wants to stop
• dehumanising 
• misunderstanding of proletariat -> quick to dismiss, abuse the social superiority 

Mrs B quotes
‘ as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’

• imperative -> authority, tires to deflect blame away from  herself (hubristic)
• symbol of bourgeoisie refusing to accept socia responsibility for vulnerable 
• declarative -> no room for argument 

Mrs B quotes
‘go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility’

• pleased with wrong things 
• looking for approval, submissive 
• choices given to someone else to decide what they want from her
• infantilised, acts like a child

Sheila quotes
‘is it the one you wanted me to have?’

• speaking up even before talking to I. -> socialist views 
• promoting socialist ideas -> echoes I.
• sympathetic 
• recognition of wrong treatment 
• criticising capitalist views
• younger generations malleable 

Sheila quotes
‘ but these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people’

• recognises responsibility all contributions 
• echoes I. ‘chain of events’ -> everyone actions connected to each other 
• Priestley reveales susceptible to change

Sheila quotes
‘ between us we drove that girl to commit sucide’

• beacon of hope for future 
• malleable 
• repetition of I. -> lasting impact 
• ‘ we often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable.’

Sheila quotes
‘fire, blood and anguish’

• objectifies women -> attraction by appearance
• highlights his immaturity and childlike perception of world
• highlights hour bourgeoisie men unknowingly exploit women 

Eric quotes 
‘she was pretty and a good sport’

• ‘animal’,’ thing’ -> women inferior to men
• callous treatment towards women by middle class men who abuse there power
• commodify (+ objectify) women without thinking about damage caused 
• Priestley shows how men can and should change

(I. to) Eric quotes
‘ used her […] as if she were an animal, a thing, not a person’

• ‘fairy prince’ -> mocking his perception of relationship, saw himself as heroic, saviour 
• defies patriarchal expectations of her gender to criticise Gerald’s masculinity 
• he lives in a fantasy world where he sees himself as benevolent when he was really callous

(Sheila to) Gerald quotes
‘ you were the wonderful fairy prince. You must have enjoyed it, Gerald’

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