How Priestley presents Mrs Birling, and how the character develops across the text: class prejudice and refusal to change.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior', 'Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things', 'Girls of that class', 'As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!', 'Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility.', 'I don't believe it. I won't believe it', 'In the morning they'll be as amused as we are'.
Her charity work and its prejudice, and dramatic irony as she condemns Eric.
Eduqas's essay on this text marks your response and your analysis of language, form and structure, not context: use context only where it helps an interpretation, and treat the printed extract as a starting point for an essay on the whole play.
