“Public men, Mr Birling, have respects as well as privileges” What do you learn about social responsibility in the play ‘An Inspector calls’? The play ‘An Inspector Calls’ was written by JB Priestly in 1946 but set in 1912. The play highlights the values held in society by different groups of people. The Birling family are middle class people and believe they are so thrilled about Gerald and Sheila’s engagement. They all also believe they cannot be blamed for the death of Eva Smith and try to deny any contact with her.
In this story, the main focus is on Lily’s journey to find everything she can about her mother and her longing for motherly love. She finds her opportunity to take this journey when Rosaleen, her African American nanny, stands up to a group of racist white men. This moment gives Lily the confidence she needs to escape from her abusive father and carry on the search for her mother’s past. Without a real mother, Lily has grown up needing to be loved. This need drives Lily to Tiburon, South Carolina where there is one last possible link to her mother.
“And then if they were dirty, mean, and imprudent, why did Momma have to call them Miz?” she asked herself after seeing her Momma treat the young girls respectfully. All of this helps to exhibit her young ignorance when it comes to the separation between blacks and whites; she knows that it is there and that it affects her negatively but at this time in her life she is unsure as to why. A more obvious separation to Maya is a physical one, the one between herself and her brother Bailey and their parents. Even though she has been with Momma in
She desperately wanted to escape from Dr. Flint because he wanted to make her his concubine and she very much disapproved of such a thing. While Jacobs and Mr. Sands were together they bore two children named Ben and Ellen. Between the years of 1838 and 1842 Jacobs managed to escape from her Master and began to support her children by working as a seamstress in the
Reverend John Hale comes to the town of Salem, Massachusetts to serve as the knowledgeable witch hunter at the request of Reverend Samuel Parris in 1962. He comes with high hopes of dispelling any evil spirits he can find, but along the way he stumbles on many obstacles, such as the corrupt court system. Aiding him on his quest for the truth are John and Elizabeth Proctor- a high ranked family in terms of land and status. The couple is dealing with John’s affair, but in doing so it releases their true feelings of deep love for one another. His other allies include Rebecca Nurse, who is known far and wide for her charity and goodness, and Martha Corey, a quick-witted yet Godly woman.
As the novel opens, Allison’s narrator, Ruth Anne “Bone” Boatwright, recounts her illegitimate birth to her fifteen-year-old mother, Anney Boatwright, and her mother’s annual humiliating attempts to get her child a birth certificate without “Illegitimate” stamped across the bottom (4). In Bone’s narration of Anney’s quest for a new birth certificate without the dehumanizing stamp, Allison indicates that the category “white trash” is an ideological construct--one of the enabling myths of a bourgeois society that relies upon the exploited labor of the class it stigmatizes in order to secure its own wealth: “Mama hated to be called trash, hated the memory of every day she’d ever spent bent over other people’s peanuts and strawberry plants while they stood tall and looked at her like she was a rock on the ground” (3-4). Allison reverses the qualities associated with the privileged class--hard-working, honest, civil--and those associated with the underclass--lazy, shiftless, uncivilized. In Allison’s analysis, Anney’s employers appear inhumane, unjust, and uncivil as they objectify her body stooped in labor for their benefit; she appears hard-working and purposeful while they appear lazy and self-indulgent in their exploitation of her work. Thus the qualities ascribed to the underclass and the elite cannot embody metaphysical essences constituting the nature of each class since the allegedly defining qualities of each are interchangeable.
Mr. King does a great job of clarifying all of the reasons for his arguments, making them logical in their appeal, hard to deny, and supports them well. For example, when he responded to the clergymen’s claim that the demonstrations were unwise and untimely, he states that the "Negro" community was left with no alternative and direct action was the only due course. Showing support for his argument he reminds that the African American leaders tried to negotiate with the city fathers, but no good-faith negotiations were conducted. Here the leaders just weren't given the opportunity to move forward without taking their own action. Mr. Kings "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is known for its powerful use of different literary styles.
And I’m very tolerant, very understanding. But I can only take so much.” David Leavitt’s “Territory” emphasizes a mother-son relationship and focuses on the effect of family boundaries. This quotation causes the main character, Neil, and the reader, to experience revelations that define the plot. At this point in the story, Neil is finally unveiled to the fact that his mother disagrees with his “territory”. The reader, on the other hand, can now understand how heavily family boundaries can impact the actions of a son.
Both Elinor and Annas ingenuity of thinking about helping the whole community to become stronger only reassures the audience of their dependability and kindness in such times when others need help. “The key to defeating this Plague...must lie here, in the virtue of such plants”. This quote shows that Elinor truly understands the meaning of the plague, while others around her continue to think that it is caused by Gods sin or a religious meaning. While Anna and Elinor as women better the community by using the valuable herbs and resources to help others, the men in Year Of Wonders aren’t shown in the same positive light, an example of this
While I knew it was wrong to use the customer list from the beginning, to hear somebody articulate in person how they were harmed made me realize that other people can dramatically be hurt if we behave unethically. I also realized that the tone at the top of the organization is critical if you want to create an organization that is ethical. Our frame shop manager had the intent of honoring her agreement with her previous employer, but my encouragement for her to use the customer list made it easier for her to make an unethical decision as well. Lynn Sharp Paine’s article on Managing for Organizational Integrity discusses how ethical issues occur at all levels of an organization. Paine states that, “ethics has everything to do with management” (Paine 106).