#sybil birling

[studying-space-of-annie]

I did my final essay of An Inspector Calls today! The question was about how Mrs Birling was presented and what the purpose was. I came prepared with notes (it was open book- thank god) n stuff and wrote 4 and a half pages! But tbh i don't think I really managed 2 really expand on the quotes n annotate them n stuff, so I'm kinda scared I'll get a bad grade :<

We're gonna start a new topic after spring term break, it's gonna be about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and like the tryhard I was, I read that book 2 be ready 4 it . I'm actually so excited for it, I rlly loved that book!! :33

[unsuspicious-nobody]

I type 4 Eva on the groupchat and they think I mean forever when I actually mean for Eva Smith from an inspector calls who deserves better

[sad-girl28]

the 1912 femdom

[an-inspector-balls]

my magnum opus - 🥧

[deschainartnerd]

You all helped to kill her

[aninspectorcalls]

"[MRS. B] is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior."

Mrs. Birling is the embodiment of the upper class - cold and unfeeling, believing herself to be better than those lower than her in the social heirarchy.

She is not what the audience might expect from a mother, most likely having done very little in terms of raising her children. This, also, presents her as the embodiment of the upper class.

[totallyhussein-blog]

Will you be visited by three Christmas ghosts or will an inspector call?

“We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.” - An Inspector Calls

Angela Moohan is the chief executive of The Larder, a charity fighting poverty and hunger with dignity. Angela has also issued a stark warning to the United Kingdom in the Morning Star newspaper.

THIS winter more and more of our fellow citizens will go hungry. In Scotland and across the UK people who have never suffered from food insecurity before will, for the first time, not have enough food to feed themselves and their families.

Last Friday, The Larder hosted a National Emergency Food Summit. We issued an open invitation to statutory and non-statutory organisations, voluntary and community groups, politicians, trade unions, academics and individuals, from across Scotland, to come together in an effort to find a collective way forward to put food into people’s bellies this winter.

While the recent focus has understandably been on soaring energy bills, hunger and food insecurity has fallen off the political and media agenda. There is a moral imperative to act, we cannot allow our fellow citizens to go without the most basic necessity for life: food.

An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the New Theatre in London the following year. It is one of Priestley's best-known works for the stage and is considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre.

One of J B Priestley’s best-known works, An Inspector Calls was written in the 1940s, though the action takes place in a single night in 1912. It features the Birlings, an upper-middle-class family living a comfortable life in the north of England, where Arthur Birling is a successful factory owner and local politician and his wife Sybil oversees the running of the home and sits on charity committees.

As Helena Gomm wrote in the Winchester Today; On the night in question, the Birlings have every reason to feel smug. Their daughter Sheila has just become engaged to Gerald, son of Sir Gerald Croft, and Arthur believes that his own name will appear in the next honours list. They are having dinner to celebrate.

Into this scene of domestic complacency comes Inspector Goole, who wishes to question the family about the suicide of a local working-class girl, Eva Smith. At first, they all deny knowledge of her, but it gradually emerges that each one has, in some way, had an impact on her life and has contributed to her exclusion from society, her despair and, ultimately, her death.

[bideo-gaming]

Inspiration for character designs

1 - 8-Ball [Marvel Comics]

8-Ball is one of the many obscure Marvel characters, being notable for fighting with a pool cue, wearing a huge 8-ball and having powers of precognition imbued within his helmet. Somehow. I really like the minimalistic approach to 8-Ball's design and I hadn't really considered pool or other casino games not strictly based on luck. I also think the pool cue is a nice touch [and being hit by one does hurt - I should know.]

2 - whatever the DCU is doing

Absolutely no clue who these are but I really like their personification of the Spades cards. Cards tend to have certain ideas attributed to them interestingly, such as the Ace being the strongest or best [hence ace pilots]. The Ace of Spades [cue guitar solo] in particular is thought to represent/foreshadow death, typically being the strongest being as it is the highest card. The King, second only to the Ace, is typically personified as the leader or figurehead for obvious reasons. The Queen, however, is typically described as regal and imperious. The King and Queen are similar to Arthur and Sybil Birling from An Inspector Calls [if i ever have to describe JB Priestly's personification fo class struggle again, it'll be too damn soon]. The Jack [or Jester as I incorrectly refer to him] is the lowest-ranking fancy card, often being the right-hand man to the King or Queen.

3 - Two-Face [DC Comics]

Two-Face, or Harvey Dent, is one of the most ubiquitous characters that can be linked to gabling. Although his whole thing is about the idea of opposites [honourable politician vs ruthless killer, heads vs tails], he relies on a coin to decide his actions. I really like this idea and figure I could use this to create a glass cannon enemy whose design uses similar elements or Two-Face, their attacks typically being very hit-or-miss, doing a lot of damage or absolutely none.

4 - King Dice [Cuphead] and a stock image I stole from Shutterstock

I've mentioned him before and I'll likely mention him again - King Dice and his arena have provided quite a bit of inspiration for my game's aesthetics. With a very simple colour scheme and design, King Dice is similar to 8-Ball with their head symbolising their gimmick or idea. Although I don't intend to use them in the same way, I'd like for dice to feature heavily in my game with their outcome dictating the effectiveness of an attack.

5 - Death Dealer [Marvel Comics]

Death Dealers are a minor trope within comics [the above image being one from Marvel] but they typically have a whole deck of throwing cards that just kill people, whether through magic, 'applied phlebotinum' [bless you] or just being cool. Although this may be difficult to execute well in my game, I really like the idea of a Death-Dealing character and the ability to use cards themselves as weapons.

6 - High Roller skins [TF2]

I really like these skins. So much so that I may just take the palette and use it in my designs at it fits perfectly with the casino aesthetic. I can't explain why I love this so much, but I certainly do.

7 - Gray Fullbody [Game of Dice]

Although this really doesn't fit with the casino theme, I'd like one of my enemies to be cowboy- or western-themed [albeit with a colour swap to the TF2 skins]. I could do a lot of High Steaks kinda wordplay or use a Russian Roulette revolver attack. I also just think the character design goes hard as hell.

[evelyngarciatirado-blog]

Ha llegado un inspector, de John Boynton Priestley

El lado B de una familia inglesa muy ambiciosa y honorable

Los fantasmas de una casta de acaudalados industriales aparecen justo cuando pensaban unir su destino al de la nobleza.  

Por: Evelyn García Tirado

La obra se inicia cuando los Birling se encuentran en medio de una cena en la que celebran el compromiso de su hija Sheila con Gerald Croft, un joven que pertenece a la nobleza de Brumley. La familia Birling está compuesta por los padres: Arthur y Sybil, y sus hijos: Sheila y Eric. Todos se encuentran felices por los futuros esposos e incluso el padre elabora planes, como el de fusionar su empresa con la de Gerald. Arthur se anima a dar consejos a los jóvenes y les asegura que pueden lograr un destino prometedor, siempre y cuando se ocupen de sus propios asuntos y los de su familia, sin atender las necesidades de la comunidad. No termina de decirlo, cuando un inspector de policía llama a su puerta y le anuncia que una joven llamada Eva Smith acaba de suicidarse tomando desinfectante. El inspector le increpa a Arthur por haber despedido a la joven cuando era obrera en su fábrica. Luego de ese traspié, Eva, según el inspector, había descendido los peldaños de la escala social hasta llegar al más absoluto desamparo. En esta dramática travesía, todos los integrantes de la familia Birling han puesto su granito de arena sin saber que contribuían a la consumación de una tragedia.

Los espectadores son testigos de un final sorprendente, que es el punto fuerte de la obra, y que tiene su origen en una línea de tiempo multidimensional. Los personajes se destacan por un individualismo muy marcado y parecen representar cada uno de ellos a un pecado capital, mientras que el inspector se erige como una especie de juez. Así, el señor Birling simbolizaría la avaricia y la ira. La señora Birling, la soberbia; su hija Sheila, la envidia; Eric, la gula y la pereza y Gerald, la lujuria.

En escena vemos a un extraordinario Alberto Ísola como el inspector Goole, quien sin gestos grandilocuentes y sin levantar la voz, logra una actuación muy sólida. Es difícil encontrar a un actor que fluctúe de manera tan natural por el cine, el teatro o la televisión. Del mismo modo, el joven Diego Salinas, quien interpreta a Gerald Croft, logra una actuación convincente y muy limpia.

La Obra

Ha llegado un inspector fue escrita por J. B. Priestley en el año 1946 y es dirigida por Roberto Ángeles. Habla, además del problema del tiempo circular, de las ideas a favor del proletariado que desarrolló su autor. Se presenta en el teatro Británico (Calle Bellavista 527, Miraflores) y se estrenó el 1 de abril. Funciones: Viernes y sábados a las 8 p. m. y domingos a las 4 y 30 p. m. y 7 p. m.

[lulu-cat-princess]

Going to tell my kids it’s mrs birling from an inspector calls

[by-scott-sheila]

HOW AN INSPECTOR CALLS CHARACTERS WOULD REACT TO YOU COMING OUT AS GAY

( GN ! READER )

—–—–—–—–—–—–—–—–—–—–—–—–↷✩

SHEILA 💍 :

" oh ? me too 🥰 "

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ERIC 🍻 :

" sorry did i hear you right , i'm a bit squiffy is all ; you're gay ? " a few awkward glances pass , like he's trying to figure out what to say next- " i hate gay people 😡😡 get out of my sight !!! "

— gerald makes a nod of apology

↓

| GERALD 🏳️‍🌈 :

" spiffing , me and eric were planning on going to pride this year , want to come ? 🥳 "

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| MR BIRLING 💸 :

" ew " [ there's a hint of pain in his voice ]

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| MRS BIRLING 👗 :

" ... . "

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| THE INSPECTOR 🔬 :

" i love the gays ,,, i'm a huge ally 😇 actually a bit of a homosexual myself ! " he gestures vaguely towards mr birling then shushes you ( politely ofc )

[funkymbtifiction]

An Inspector Calls: Sybil Birling [ESFJ 1w2]

An Inspector Calls: Sybil Birling [ESFJ 1w2]

Function Order: Fe-Si-Ne-Ti Our introduction to Sybil is her informing the men at the table that they ought not to “say such things” in front of young, unmarried women, with the implication that she is judging them for socially inappropriate behavior. Indeed, this Fe consensus of “what is appropriate” determines all of her actions, her rationalizations for her wrongful decisions, and her own…

[sad-girl28]

forcing my friend to watch an inspector calls with me because I love sybil birling 😚😚

[an-inspector-balls]

[msscribe-stan]

me and my friends wrote this on frantic fanfic and it was so good we needed to post it

[aninspectorcalls]

TAGS

My organisation. Look at me go. As you can tell I am so unbelievably on top of things.

ACTS:

Act One | Act Two | Act Three

CHARACTERS:

Inspector Goole | The Birlings/Gerald | Arthur Birling | Sybil Birling | Sheila Birling | Eric Birling | Gerald Croft | Eva Smith/Daisy Renton | Edna

THEMES:

Capitalism | Socialism | Capitalism v Socialism | The Class System |Women in Ed. England | Treatment of the Working Class | The Younger Generation/Hope For Social Reform | Family Dynamics Within the Birlings

GOOLE:

Socialism (Priestley's mouthpiece) | Power

BIRLING:

Symbolic of Middle-Class Capitalism | Symbolic of the Upper-Middle Class | Uncaring and Apathetic to the Issues of the Working Class

SHEILA:

Symbolic of Hope for Social Reform | Naive and Sheltered | Remorseful and Sympathetic | An Edwardian (Upper-Middle Class) Woman

MRS B:

Symbolic of the Issues in the Upper Class | An Edwardian (Upper Class) Woman | An Uncaring Mother | Uncaring and Apathetic to the Issues of the Working Class

ERIC:

GERALD:

EVA/DAISY:

Symbolic of the Working Class | Exploited and Disadvantaged | A Character to be Sympathised With | An Edwardian (Working Class) Woman

EDNA:

Symbolic of the Working Class | An Edwardian (Working Class) Woman

EXTRAS:

Stage directions | Set/Lighting | Dramatic Irony