Essays

[sir]

Remember the key ingredients of a good paragraph: embedded short quotation(s); uses key words from question (in this case "speaks" "behaves" "audience responds"; make sure you provide thorough analysis as this is where grades are gained or lost.

[jonnywilliams]

Another quotation that can be used to represent Birling’s behaviour and actions is in the quotation, “By jingo, a fake!”. This quotation is quite a key one to represent Mr Birling’s behaviour as it is extremely selfish and insensitive. This is because the family have just been quite shaken up by the inspector’s interrogation, but since they have realised it’s a fake he doesn’t really care about his family, he is just merely relieved by the fact that he might still have a shot at getting a knighthood because a public scandal won’t be released. The affect of this quotation on the audience is quite shocking and selfish as Sheila, Eric and Mrs Birling are obviously upset about what they have confessed to and feel vulnerable whereas Birling is being his usual facist self and looking out for himself with no sentiment towards his family.

[frazer]

On pages: 62; 63 and 64 of 'An Inspector Calls', Mr Birling is shown to be extremely selfish. This is clearly shown on page 62, when it is announced by Gerald that the inspector was a fake. Upon hearing this news, Mr birling replies with an astounded 'What?'. Immediatly his thoughts are that he is off the hook and out of trouble. He then makes sure that the news passed on to him from is in fact true. This blatantly shows an audience that his first thoughts are of only himself and how he wants to make absolutely sure that he is out of trouble. To an audience this leaves only poor impressions of Mr Birling, and this is exactly what J.B.Priestley wants.

[leemartin]

Mr Birling speaks very rudely to his own son he say "And you'd better keep quiet anyhow". by saying this he is shown that he doesnt care what any of his family have to say he just cares what he has to say and wants everyone to listen to him and what he has to say. This shows the audience he is a very selfish man as he can talk to his family members with such disrespect.

[efc4eva]

M.r Berling
He carries on being impaitiant when inspector is speaking. ritched girl. If you don't come down sharply on some of these people they'd soon be asking for the earth. I dicharged her from my employment nearly two years ago. Obviously i suggested that some time ago. He says he still can't accept any responsiblilty.

[bobdutton]

From pages 60 to 63 when Birling and the other characters discover that Inspector Goole is a fraud Birling becomes exited, He seem ready to forget everything thats he's thought, felt and learnt from the inspector. this shows him to be a selfish and greedy character. This is becuase all he cares about is himself being freed from the situation that he was in and not what he has done or what might of happend to Eva Smith.

When birling says 'That fellow was prejudiced from the start' this could be seen as quite and ironic statement. This is becuase through out the play the Inspector has shown birling to have a prejudice against people of a lowwer class. Now that Birling is free from the situation he wrongly acuses the inspector of having apredudice against him and his family.

More evidence of Birling being selfish and ready to give up everything he's thought during the events of the evening is when Gerald brings him the new that the Inspector is a fake, Birling imediatly becomes exited exclaiming 'By jingo a fake' and 'this makes all the diffrence'. This all adds up to show Birling as a selfish man who is ignorant of the possability of his actions.

[jadesuth]

In the part of the play when the family discovers that Inspector Goole was not a geniune police officer, Birling yet again presents many acts of selfishness and ignorance, in the extreme. On finding out that the Inspector was a fake he states ''By Jingo! A fake!''. We gather from the stage directions that Birling says this ''Excitedly'' and realise that he is not thinking about his family, but his reputation and supposedly jeopardised knighthood. This theory is strengthened when he later says ''This makes a difference, y'know. In fact makes all the difference''. We can see again that he is thinking of the knighthood that he was meant to be honoured with and fervently hoping it may still be within his grasp. This shows, yet again, an extreme disregard and dismissive attitude toward his family, who he supposedly supports and cares about. The effect this has on the audience is similar to all previous reactions to the interperitation of his behaviour. We distrust him, we dislike him and we disagree with anyting he may have to say, due to all his previous arrogant and untruthful speeches. Of course, all of his views are Conservative, which means the audience begins to question whether the right ring view on society and ethics is the right one after all. This is exactly how Priestely wants the audience to think and the exact impression he wants Birling to give the audience about right wing politics and those who support it. Birling is a puppet though which Priestely portrays his negative views about the Consertative supporters.