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Are the Birling Family and Gerald Croft Responsible for the Deaths of Eva Smith and Daisy Renton?
Summary: Essay discusses if the Birling Family and Gerald Croft are collectively responsible for the deaths of Eva Smith and Daisy Renton respectively.
I will be looking at the Birling family and Gerald Croft to see if they are collectively responsible in any way for the death of Eva Smith/Daisy Renton.
I will begin by looking at how Mr Birling was involved with the death of Eva Smith. Mr Birling is head of his own company called Birling and Co and Eva was a worker there but was then sacked because she was a strike ringleader. This, although it wasn't the nicest things to do, wasn't a major factor in Eva's death. The factor that was nasty was that after her death Mr Birling didn't show any remorse towards Eva at all, on the contrary he shifted the blame onto other people who were just as equally responsible.
So this started off a chain reaction in Eva's life, which eventually lead to her death.
During the time that the inspector...
This section contains 1,199 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |