Mr Birling is shown to be an arrogant and confident character. With his first line in the extract given he shows a very careless and selfish attitude with the statement 'I discharged her'. Birling gives a cold attitude towards Eva Smith's life and shows that he doesn't care for her, giving himself a more noticeable selfish attitude. Birling decides to not use her name and constantly regards her as 'girl' and the fact he has to think about her time at his business shows that she wasn't important enough to him, and shows that he thinks workers and people below him don't deserve to be called by their names. Birling tries to intimidate Inspector Goole by boasting about his status and the type of people he knows, for example when Birling mentions the engagement between Sheila and Gerald Croft - a name made famous by 'Croft's limited', Birling brings this up to intimate the Inspector as Birling expects his status to buy him away from trouble and put him above the law.
Hope B. Torres Prof. Thomas Bland English 151 September 23, 2014 Shooting an Elephant vs. Mexicans Deserve More Than La Mordida Shooting an Elephant and Mexicans Deserve More Than La Mordida are two essay that are being written to argue and make a point about important topics, the British Imperialists and “La Mordida” in Mexico. They are telling a story in which they both had to make decisions in being a part of something that, really, wasn't a good thing; shooting an elephant or giving the police money - they both caved into peer pressure. Both writers persuade us by using three types of appeals; ethos, pathos and logos. Both authors start off by introducing their backgrounds, this helps us with an idea of what the essay will be about. By using this way of introduction we are able to know the character and therefore, we are able to trust them and know that they are accredited.
Americanized Americanized composed by Bruce Dawe is a satirical poem that directly attacks the American ways of life and how countries are losing their cultural identity by conforming to the American standards. Americanized is also how the basic human relationships have been perverted by consumeristic culture, and how a consumer-driven society that dehumanizes its citizens and robs them of their individuality. Throughout the poem Dawe uses an extended metaphor: The mother being America and the child representing a smaller, developing country which is slowly being embedded with the American ways and values. Dawe uses irony within the title of the poem which sets the tone as it is spelt the American way, ‘Americanized’ with a ‘z’ instead of the Australian way ‘Americanised’ with a ‘s’. This reinforces the idea that we are losing our cultural identity by conforming to American standards including their way of spelling and punctuation.
Holden explores the concept of relationships through the similar attitudes displayed towards popular society and his repulsion of their values. Holden is seen throughout the novel to have difficulty accepting people due to their pretentious nature and expresses this through the constant use of the word “phony.” “…very phony, Ivy League voices, one of those very tried, snobby voices” this quote by Holden displays his criticism of middle to upper class America. Holden’s relationship with his own parents is one that he deems
Imediantly showing Mr Birling’s personality, which is selfish. Then he goes on and saying, “There isn’t a chance of war” this dramamtic irony leads the audience into looking forward to seeing Mr Birling being prove wrong. In addition, this shows Mr Birling’s thoughts on responsibilities are wrong. Saying this, the sudeience should not agree with him and his thoughts on responsibilies due to the examples of dramatic irony. After he had finished his speech on keeping labour cost down and profit high, Inspector Goole enters and throws a shocking news at the Birlings.
Fake Beauty The price of beauty is more than what is thought. Alan Ball’s American Beauty shows characters that are miserable because they are hiding their emotions and pretending to be happy. Dave Barry’s “The Ugly Truth about Beauty” tells how society focuses too much on appearance. These problems are caused by being false, keeping secrets and society’s superficiality. Both the film and article shows that there is so much beauty in this world, but people sometimes fail to look beyond appearances and see what really matters.
This illustrates the significance of the social class and the inequality faced by those of the lower class. In Act Two, Priestley presents ideas about social class, through the interaction between the characters. When Mrs Birling is informed of Eva Smith/Daisy Renton not accepting the money from the father of the child, she doesn’t believe the Inspector and responds, ‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!’ This indicates that upper/middle-class people believed that working class people only used others for money. Thus, it demonstrates that social class is important because Priestley has his characters stereotyping each other, which disproves the counterfeit image of the different social class that people have. In the last act, Priestley exhibits ideas about social class, through placing his own opinion into the character and the mindset of Inspector Goole.
If you are a person who can read people you might have been saved the experience that Mrs. Culhane went through. After clearing his son’s name of the crime, she tried to offer him less money, which is something you just don’t do when dealing with Mr. Ehrengraf. This is when you learn about the real side of Mr. Ehrengraf, the man who you do not cross. After she tries to explain that to him her reasoning, she is told a “story” of how he was able to get her son off. The truth was too much for her, and terrified her to her core.
Society's conscience is ignored in order to preserve tradition. We see how traditions, whether right or wrong influence all we do and affect our children. “ The Lottery," expresses capitalism by accusing those whom it cannot or will not employ of being lazy, promoting "the family" as the essential social unit in order to discourage broader associations and identifications, offering men power over their wives as a consolation for their
Like the protagonist of Life After George, Violet’s heroic stance against a social system which seeks to control her thoughts shapes the action in Feed. Her self-perception, shaped within the context of homeschooling with her defiant and subversive father, is shown to remain relatively untouched by the dominant consumer madness of her society. Understanding that the mission of the feed is essentially to ‘make everything even simpler’ in order to market consumer goods to a brainwashed nature, Violet challenges the values which Titus has naturalised. Anderson attempts to portray characters who are so deeply embedded within their consumer context that they become ‘ignorant, self-centred idiots’, oblivious to the insights which Violet has gained about the controlling nature of corporations. When Violet articulates controversial belief statement, Titus believes that ‘it’s the