Act One Flashcards
Quote to show the birlings have trapping of wealth - description of house
Decanter of port, cigar box and cigarettes. Port glasses already on the table
Description of Mr B
‘Rather portentous man’
Description of Gerald
‘Well-bred young man’
Quote to show sheila as childish - juxtaposes end of story when she matures
‘Yes, go on mother’
Quote from Mr B showing his exitement of Gerald joining the family as he sees it as a business opportunity - business orientated
‘No longer competing but are working together - for lower costs and higher prices’
Quote to show Patriachal society as Mr B adresses his daughter and gerald
‘Wishing the pair of you - the very best life can bring. Gerald and sheila’
Quote to show the birlings as materialistic as sheila needed an expensive ring
‘Now i really feel engaged’
Dramatic irony from Mr B talking about war - ignorant - thinks he knows everything
‘The Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war’
Dramatic irony as Mr B talks about the titanic
‘Its unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
Quote to show Mr B as Arrogant and naive
‘We hard headed business men’
Quote by Mr B to foreshadow the inspector coming
‘You don’t know what some of these boys get up to nowdays’
Quote by Mr B to idealise capitalism
‘A man has to make his own way - look after himself’
Quote by Mr B to impose authority to try and get the inspector to leave
‘I was an alderman for years and Lord mayor two years ago’
Violent imagery to scare the Birlings - show consequences of their actions
‘Burnt her inside out, of course’
Quote by Mr B to dismiss the poor -pshowing disrespect
‘If you don’t come down sharply on these people, soon they will be asking for the earth’
Quote by the inspector to challenge Mr B - mouthpiece for Priestly - socialist
‘Its better than to ask for the earth and to take it’
Quote from Eric to challenge capitalism - shows him taking responsibility
‘Why should they try for higher wages?’
Quote from Sheila challenging capitalism and Mr B - tsking responsibility and caring for the poor’
‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour, their people’
Priestly talking through the inspector to allude to what poor people went through
‘We tried to put ourselves in the place of these young eomen counting their pennies in their dingy little back-bed rooms’
Sheila taking responsibity
‘No not really, its my fault’
The inspector questioning sheila - guilt trip
‘So you used the power you had’
Sheila feeling sorry for herself
‘Oh why had this had to happen’
Quote showing gerald not taking responsibility
‘I don’t come into this suicide business’
