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Eventually, Mrs Birling and Sheila withdraw, with the men promising to join them soon. While Mr Birling and Gerald smoke cigars together, Mrs Birling lectures Eric in private. Eric then returns to the dining room, where his father compares him to Gerald and tells Eric about how Gerald’s father sometimes leaves him in charge of the factory.
He admits to having dismissed her for leading strike action, with most of the female workers demanding equal pay to males. Despite admitting that he left Smith without a job, Birling denies any responsibility for her death. Sheila (having been sent by her mother to bring Birling, Eric and Gerald to the drawing room) is shown a photograph of Smith.
On "Birling Day", the crew toady to Birling in the hope that he will give them all large tips. Every Birling Day, Douglas attempts to steal Birling's prized 25-year-old Talisker single-malt whisky and sell it on while Carolyn and the rest of the crew try to stop him. In addition, Douglas and Martin, despite their personal differences and mutual ...
Birling family, in An Inspector Calls; See also. Birlingham, Worcestershire This page was last edited on 24 July 2021, at 13:56 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Daniel Dennett asks why anyone would care about whether someone had the property of responsibility and speculates that the idea of moral responsibility may be "a purely metaphysical hankering". [44] In this view, the denial of moral responsibility is the moral hankering to be able to assert that one has some fictitious right such as asserting ...
Diffusion of responsibility [1] is a sociopsychological phenomenon whereby a person is less likely to take responsibility for action or inaction when other bystanders or witnesses are present. Considered a form of attribution , the individual assumes that others either are responsible for taking action or have already done so.
"With great power comes great responsibility" is a proverb popularized by Spider-Man in Marvel comics, films, and related media. Introduced by Stan Lee , it originally appeared as a closing narration in the 1962 Amazing Fantasy #15, and was later attributed to Uncle Ben as advice to the young Peter Parker .
Power Without Responsibility (subtitled: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain or Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain) is a book written by James Curran (Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College) and Jean Seaton (Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster).