The inspector says in act 2 that young people are "more impressionable.". The best example of this is Sheila Birling. She is the eldest of the two Birling children. Sheila's views on morality and responsibility redefined by the end of the play because of the inspector and the death of an abandoned girl.

At the beginning of the play the Birlings (Mr, Mrs and Eric Brling as well as Sheila's fiancee, Gerald Croft) were gathered round the dinning table celebrating the engagement. At this stage Sheila was just an excitable girl saying things like "I jolly well thinl not", "Chump! I can't drink". She waffles on like a school girl.

She is extremely shaken when the inspector arrives and informs her of the girls death "Oh-how horrible!" she says genuinely. Later in act one When it is revealed to Sheila that she is responsible for the sacking of the girl, she is greatly upset. She gives a "sob, and then runs from the room". When she returns she says with reference to her part in the events, that "it didn't seem terrible at the time." This shows

In act two, when her mother first enters and starts talking, Sheila attempts to warn her of being to cocky with the inspector and tells her not to "build up a wall between us and that girl ... the inspector will just break it down." She shows that she has studied how the inspector works and how class, in this situation, is not importance to him.

In my opinion Mr and Mrs Birling were totally wrong, Sheila had seen this. If I drove home drunk and didn't hit anyone dose that make it okay? No, because there would have been high chance I could have, I just would have been lucky not to, Just like the Birlings.

Sheila at the start of the play wasn't aware of her social and moral responsibilities to the less well off. She said that getting the girl sack "didn't seem anything terrible at the time." Later in the play she couldn't bare to talk about it "Don't please I can't stop thinking about it." She had learnt not to misuse he power. She was also impressed by the inspector, as at the end of act three she said "I remember what he said, how he looked, and what he made me feel, fire blood and anguish." Near the end of the play she relised that it made no difference if the girl had died, or not. All that matter was that they changed there ways, so as not to risk hurting any Eva Smiths.

I wouldn't describe the youth in the play as impressionable; I would describe the old as stubborn and blinded by selfishness instead "I was almost certain for a knighthood." Said Mr Birling in act three, he was so obsessed with his

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