Arthur Birling's Outlook on Life Socially and In Business
In the play, Arthur Birling was one of the Predominant characters that
portray an unsophisticated and Pompous man, but on the other hand Mr.
Birling was one of the wealthiest businessmen in the area (Brumly) and
was very involved in local politics. His success brings him hopes of
achieving Knighthood and thus making him closer socially to Lady Croft
and Sir George.
“….there’s a far chance that I might find my way into the next Honours
list. Just for a Knighthood of course.” (Act 1. p.8)
As the play progresses the description of Mr. Birling certainly
grants him a threatening appearance due to his size and stature.
“heavy-looking rather portentous man” (Act 1, p.1).
Arthur Birling was brought up in a family that were not land owners or
gentry (Contradictory to the lifestyle he desires) and so his
upbringing figures predominantly in his social inadequacy but with his
wealth that he attained, he was able to climb up the social ladder.
His social inadequacy leads to his contempt for weakness and stupidity
of others, amalgamated with his over towering self confidence, leads
him to think he can do no wrong and his actions towards Eva Smith were
not wrong at all:
“I discharged her from my employment nearly two years ago…the girl has
been causing trouble in the works. I was quite justified” (Act 1,
p.17)
Arthur believes that this sort of attitude is absolutely essential for
the business world and feels that he has an immense responsibility
towards making his business’s successful. And trying to make as much
profit as possible and weakness and foolishness is comp...
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of rejecting Eva:
“And I should think so! Dammed Impudence!” (Act 2, p.43)
Over all, there were very few incidents when Arthur Birling showed
some remorse…although it was momentary:
“Look, Inspector –I’d give thousands…yes, Thousands” (Act 3, p.56)
Mr. Birlings pompous arrogant attitude continues when he questions
Inspector Goole’s professionalism. Accusing the Inspector as being,
fake and Telling Unreal Stories. These arrogant accusations leads him
to believe that these Unreal Stories have no meaning, and therefore
has nothing to do with him. This is a typical example of his
complacent and selfish character.
Overall Mr. Birling inhibits all undesirable mannerisms; he is a
greedy, selfish, arrogant stupid man who is hopelessly inadequate in
learning moral values taught by Inspector Goole.
what he did to the family. It took me awhile to get a good impression of Perry.
...hen he was asked a series of questions about the murder he had no opinion or a reasonable answer to why exactly he had killed the man.
He was sentenced to five flat years without the possibility of parole. In prison, he had the same idea about race. He must stick to what this family taught him and stick to the Chicanos. Everybody is prison had the same idea. “Whites sat with whites, blacks with blacks, and Chicanos with Chicanos.” (Baca 114) It was the same thought process of race behind bars. He did just that, throughout his time in jail his close friends were Chicanos and he didn’t trust any other race.
he neglects to do what he is supposed to. The first thing he should have done
dangerous man and was guilty of the murder, and who knows what else. Upon Walter’s release
is at odds with the society he can't or doesn't fit in. Leonard is an
let that one thing that he tried so hard not to do happen. He touched someone,
self-centered. His life is the mirror of a Greed Tragedy. In his case, the flaw
Also, he was telling her what to do. He wanted her to sit around at home and not work and it was no conducive to her plans.
destructive. Tom felt that he could do anything he wanted and get away with it.
... not learnt anything from his mistakes and still continues to deny about taking any responsibility about the girl’s death.
He is talking to a woman and she is telling him how his father has been to the clinic three times that month and there is nothing they can do about it any longer. He ask to speak with her supervisor which she is the supervisor. Once the woman states that her name is Shaniqua he makes a rude comment and she automatically hung up in his face. After this happens John has a negative impression of all African American women. He is discriminating against all African American women just because what happened with Shaniqua not giving his dad medical assistance. “Discrimination is a hurtful action toward a particular group of people because they belong to that group.” In another scene John is with his partner Hansen and they pull over the Thayer’s who look to be doing some type of sexual intercourse. He doesn’t pull them over, because they are performing sexual intercourse in the car but because they happen to be a part of the particular group he doesn’t like. Since his views of all African American women are changed as negative he forcefully takes his anger out on Christine by sexually harassing her in front of her husband. Her husband wants to react, but he is in a position to where he can’t do anything. Ryan knows what his partner is doing is wrong, but he has to be obedient seeing how he is a police officer. Obedience is following the demands of an authority. He talk’s his partner into letting them go rather than saying that he’s wrong and needs to
character Jack lead him to become more violence and crazy when he was isolated. This was a
Lack of prosocial internal standards which manifest through the failure to uphold lawful or cultural normative ethical behavior – He deliberately goes against all social norms and encourages radical behavior to express these
thought it was the right thing to do. As of his deep set hatred for