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Birling Frequently boasts about his social stance
,
including
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his
upcoming knighthood and his connections with
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absolutely unsinkable
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people
Y Howeve his
oasting only highlights
"
public men... have responsibilities .
"Hard headed practical men of business. inse further, and reveals his
cravings for
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The
way some of these cranks talk and write now
after
You'd think
everybody has to look
everybody else....
In his interactions Goole
and all that nonsense
1 with , he
community .
tries to use his social status
"Arthur Birling -
is a
heavy looking ,
rather portentous man in his to intimidate the Inspector
I
middle fifties with but rather
fairly easy manners provincial in his
speech .
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, Still I can't accept any responsibility. If every thing How do
, we were all responsible for
you get On with our
that happened to
every
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boby we'd had
anything to do with it it would be
, very Chief Constable e... I
ought to
awkward Wouldn'tIt (Act 1) warn that he's an old
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Theme One -
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Moral Responsibility 1 This does not work
,
as Goole is
not impressed by money or status,
Mr
Birling's
role is to expose the moral responsibility and is just there to
expose their
dirty
of the others in the death of Eva Smith .
Secrets .
how would have been
Priestley Cleverly shows their
guilt Birlings' arrogance is
evidently when
seen
hidden if it was not for Mr
Birling he lectures everyone considering himself
,
to be the chief
authority every subject on .
He reinforces his opinions by using phrases
As a socialist , priestley believed that those in power, hav like "listen to this" , "Of Course", "I tell you"
wealth
without and "naturally, while putting down others
a moral
responsibility towards those or powe
whodon't
And his this
play is a way of addressing
feel thesamewaywhileusingone
.
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"nonsense"
Birling lacks
responsibility for others
, he is
"The
a Capitalist
and an individualist .
Billing says , Way some of these cranks Mr
Birlings' arrogance however
, makes him
talk and You'd after he cannot
write now . think
everybody has to
I
look short
sighted , possibility
see of a
everybody
else.... Community and all that nonsense . different future that
changes way things are