Comment on the use of literary techniques.
Birling: (solemnly) But this is the point. I don’t want to lecture you two young fellows
again. But what so many of you don’t seem to understand now, when things are so much easier,
is that a man has to make his own way – has to look after himself – and his family too, of course,
when he has one – and so long as he does that he won’t come to much harm. But the way some of
these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we
were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense. But take my
word for it, you youngsters – and I’ve learnt in the good hard school of experience – that a man
has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own – and –