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Aqa English literature gcse mr birling

Hey please can someone help me to analyse this quote / give interpretations and writes methods
‘Arthur Birling is a heavy looking, rather portentous man...with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech’
Please get reply if you have any ideas and thank you for your time!

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Why is he heavy looking?

What does "rather provincial in his speech mean"?

What sort of social class is this man from?

How much wealth does this man have?

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Original post by 04MR17

Why is he heavy looking?

What does "rather provincial in his speech mean"?

What sort of social class is this man from?

How much wealth does this man have?

Thanks for replying! What do u mean?

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Original post by Jeanderson14

Thanks for replying! What do u mean?

I'm prompting you to think about certain aspects of Mr Birling in connection with this quotation. Is there a particular bit you don't understand?

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Original post by 04MR17

I'm prompting you to think about certain aspects of Mr Birling in connection with this quotation. Is there a particular bit you don't understand?

Oh ok thanks. I don’t get what it means by heavy looking

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Original post by Jeanderson14

Oh ok thanks. I don’t get what it means by heavy looking

I read is as a polite word for overweight :wink:

:wink:

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Original post by 04MR17

I read is as a polite word for overweight :wink:

:wink:

Oh ok thanks could it also mean that he is loaded with money

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Original post by Jeanderson14

Oh ok thanks could it also mean that he is loaded with money

It can be implied because at the time if you were large that was going to mean you were wealthy.

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Original post by 04MR17

It can be implied because at the time if you were large that was going to mean you were wealthy.

Thank you for your help!

absolutelysprout

priestley could be seen as mocking birling- he attempts to present himself as a man of high status but his speech is more of a local dialect/manner

Pompous, verbose but easily outwitted.

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Original post by entertainmyfaith

priestley could be seen as mocking birling- he attempts to present himself as a man of high status but his speech is more of a local dialect/manner

Thanks

OP

Original post by Zasty

Pompous, verbose but easily outwitted.

Thanks

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