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Mr Birling is the head of the Birling household. He has made himself very wealthy by being a 'hard-headed' business man . He is an active member of the community in Brumley and thinks that he ...
Arthur Birling is firmly entrenched within 1912 ante-bellum. (means before the war) English social elite. The play is set just before the outbreak of World War One and within the extravagant Birling household. Mr Birling’s dominant position within a static society (poor stay poor and rich stay.
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Aug 14, 2020 · Mr Birling, is a capitalist, a wealthy businessman who makes money for himself and for the government as from the money he makes he pays the government taxes. We know that he has a ‘provincial accent’ and is clearly not from an aristocratic or ‘old money’ (a family which has been very wealthy for generations) family.
- ‘Arthur Birling is a heavy looking, rather portentous man’
- Showing off to Gerald Croft ‘Giving us the port Edna?’
- Show ing off to Gerald C roft 'You ought to like this port, Gerald. As a matter of fact, Finchley told me it's the same port your father gets from him.'
- Capitalism, Selfish ‘Now you have brought us together, and perhaps we may look forward to a time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices. ’
Mr Birling represents the older, upper-class generation, who would go on to cause numerous deaths in World War One and Two. They did not care about the welfare of the lower-class, even though the lower-class men were the ones fighting the war for them. Mr Birling is head of the household and family and displays a stereotypical upper-class pre ...
Arthur Birling Character Analysis. Arthur Birling. Arthur Birling is introduced as a “fairly prosperous” manufacturer and a family man with a wife and two children, Sheila and Eric. He is large-bodied and middle aged, with easy manners and provincial speech. Birling is identified by the Inspector as the initiator of Eva Smith ’s downfall ...
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Arthur Birling. Prosperous industrialist Arthur Birling is looking forward with confidence to a secure future. Mr Birling is proud of his achievements. From humble beginnings he has built up a ...
