Write about how the setting or any of the characters  remind you of people or characters in your own personal life. How are the situations or events similar to or different from your own life?

Reflection:

 

The play indeed relates to my own life. You may find the same characters everywhere in your everyday life.

In the play we meat different individuals with inappropriate behaviour, which in a way is comparable to my life. To a greater or lesser extent, I deal with selfishness, greed, jealousy etc.

Among other contexts it occurs in the school, in the family, in relations, in a larger global context etc.

Mr Birling represented greed. An example is the dining table of Birlings with champagne, dessert and port. On the other hand, he views the working class to be greedy. He claims they would ask for the “earth” if allowed. By the way this attitude reveals his complete lack of self-awareness.

The climate change is a result of greed and the resistance to refugees is probably too.

Greed is also expressed in a desire to have more of something than you need. Greed doesn’t just have to do with money.

Anything you do to enrich yourself is an example of greed.

However, Greed and Selfishness are very closely connected.

Among other examples, Mrs.Birling seems rather selfish, after she refuses to help a young woman in need and she seems unchanged by the inspector`s speech.

I`m mostly confronted with self-centred people during my education or work. A selfish person has difficulty seeing beyond herself and she often criticizes others in an effort to feel superior.

Sheila is jealous to the appearance of Eva, when she first met her in the Milward`s warehouse.

Jealous occurs in a relationship, if someone that you love seems interested in another person or if someone has something that you want.

   

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