AIC Exam Q’s Flashcards
Sheila
Accepting responsibility:
“I know I’m to blame - and I’m desperately sorry”
“You might as well admit to it”
“Between us we drove that girl to suicide”
View of younger generation:
“I’m sorry, daddy”
“Oh - Sorry”
“I’ll never, ever do it again”
“Mother-stop-stop!”
“Mother hardened her heart”
“(Cutting in)”
Effected by Inspector:
“I tell you - whoever that inspector was, it was anything but a joke”
“Between us we drove that girl to suicide”
“It doesn’t matter who it was that made us confess”
Goole
Collective Responsibility:
“A chain of events”
“But each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it.”
Challenges Mr Birlings Politics:
“It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”
“Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges”
Warning for the future:
“There are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths”
“They will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish”
Mr Birling
Untrustworthy:
“Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”
“Fiddlesticks! The Germans don’t want war”
Condescending:
“Be quiet Sheila”
“If you don’t come down hard on these people they’d soon be asking for the earth”
Egotistical:
“Talking as a hard headed practical man of business”
“Telling me to shut up- and so on”
“I don’t like that tone”
Eric
Naive:
“Half shy, half assertive”
“Then - you killed her”
Sexist:
“Well I was in that state where a chap could easily turn nasty”
“She treated me - as if I were a kid”
“She was a pretty good sport”
Willing to challenge father:
“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble”
“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices”
Gerald
Empathy:
“I was sorry for her”
“Daisy gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help”
Stuck in his ways:
“Everything’s alright now Sheila. What about this ring?”
“Nearly any man would have done”
“You couldn’t have done anything else”
Women are objects:
“She’s obviously had about as much as she can stand”
“She was young and pretty and warm-hearted”
