Themes - Responsibility

Question 1

“a man has to make his own Way
has to look after himself- and his
family, too, of course, when he has
one”

Answer 1

• Repetition of masculine pronouns “his” “himself” emphasizes sexist views
• Hyphen - family is after he puts himself first
• imperative verb “has to” = male obligation/duty

Question 2

“naturally I don’t know anything about this girl”

Answer 2

• situational irony is Sheila didn’t know this girl
• Adverb “naturally” = automatically seen as less suspicious or less likely to be involved in wrongdoing because of their higher social class
• “anything” She shows no involvement with Eva

Question 3

“There’s every excuse for what
both your mother and I did-
It turned out unfortunately
that’s all.”

Answer 3

• noun “excuse” = pathetic reason
  trying to excuse himself
  from blame
• “That’s all’ and ‘unfortunately
  Very dismissive -lack of empathy, doesn’t actually care
• Collective pronoun “both’ Shares responsibility with Mrs B

Question 4

“We have done a great deal of
useful work in helping deserving
Cases”

Answer 4

• adjective “deserving” Shows harm and judgement - she believes that her class is able to determine who is deserving for stuff and who isn’t (base on looks probably)
• Semantic field of morality and goodness gives her a false sense of moral accomplishment - thinks she is doing the correct thing she isn’t