Discuss Priestleys depiction of the Birling household and Gerald :: English Literature

Discuss Priestleys depiction of the rotate household and GeraldCroft, precedent to the arrival of Inspector GooleIn this submission I hope to fully discuss Priestleys depiction ofthe birl household and Gerald Croft, prior to the arrival ofInspector Goole. The play is set in the fictional town of Brumley, anindustrial town in the North Midlands. It is evening in the town, inthe spring of 1912. At the moment the play starts the characters arecelebrating the engagement in the midst of Gerald Croft and the Birlingfamilys only daughter Sheila. They are all very mirthful withthemselves and are enjoying the occasion.The house is described as being a reasonably large suburban house. Thefurniture in the rooms is described as being, good solid furniture ofthe period. The general effect is substantial and heavy comfortable,but not cosy and homelike. As you will exit ulterior Mr. Birling alwayswants to agnize the impression that he is better than his guest, or atleast is his guests n eighborly equal. The furniture in the house may beanother one of Birlings attempt to make the guest intuitive feeling this way. Hedoesnt want to make the guest feel comfortable in his home he wantsto make them feel small and insignificant in comparison to himself.Mrs. Birling is, herself, a person that is obsessed by social class,she may have selected the furniture herself as a way of masking offtheir spot and again making their guests feel as if they arent asgood as the Birling family. Birling as you will see later is thestereotypical capitalist of the time. He will do anything to makehimself look and feel as if he is better than his guest. The furniturerepresents the Birling families longing for status.In the early 1900s social status was virtually everything. This wasbecause collectivism dominated the whole of the United Kingdom. Thevertical social ladder of status was what controlled who was asomebody and who was a nobody. The description of the house is agood example of h ow unsocial many families were during this timebecause all anybody, who was anybody, wanted was to show how wealthythey were, and to climb the social ladder.I shall now palaver about the characters themselves.Mr. Birling is described as being, a heavy-looking, rather imposingman in his middle fifties with fairly easy tact but ratherprovincial in his speech. He is a well-heeled factory owner and is aself made man. He follows all the capitalist traits of the time andworks heavily under the capitalist business mentality, build themcheap, sell them expensive.