Social status/class

Social status/class

1. Upper class

   • Capitalist
     • Believe rich should keep all money earned
     • Look after yourself only
   • Higher up the social ladder
     • Mr Birling hopes to get a night hood- climbing social ladder
   • Own most business
     • Mr Birling wants shelia and Gerald to get married because
       • To merge to business Croft and Birling
   • Wealthy=Birlings
   • Mrs Birling
     • Considerable influnce as upper class
     • Doesn't work
     • Head of charity
     • Was head of family as Mr Birling married into the wealth
       • Some influnce in family
   • Shelia
     • Doesnt work shops
     • Follows mrs Birlings foot steps
     • To obey
   • Mr Birling
     • Man head of family
     • His word law in family
   • Eric
     • Works
       • Steals
     • Obeys Mr birling
     • Follows Mr Birlings footsteps

2. Women

   • Seen as
     • Delicate
     • Fragile
     • Obedient
   • Subserviant
     • To fathers or husbands
   • Possesion of the man

3. Lowerclass

   • Women Cheap labour
     • Strikes started
     • Unions
   • Eva Smith
     • working class
     • Cheap labour
     • Mercy of men

4. Context

   • After world war 2
     • women get higher wages
     • Written in world war 2 1945
     • set before world war 1 1912
   • Women trying to get rights
     • equal to men
     • Suffrage movement begining