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stage directions describing Sheila

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a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited

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Mr Birling making Sheila’s engagement all about himself

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your engagement to Sheila means a tremendous lot to me

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stage directions describing Gerald

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man about town

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Sheila’s reaction when faced with responsibility

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It was my own fault

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Sheila’s regret

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I’ll never, never do it again to anybody

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Sheila beginning to become the inspector’s mouthpiece

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Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet

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Inspector’s reaction to Gerald trying to protect Sheila

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And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?

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Mr B and inspector when addressing Eric’s drinking problem

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  • He’s only a boy
  • No, he’s a young man
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Sheila’s reaction to G’s affair

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  • she hands him the ring
  • I rather respect you more than I’ve ever done before
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Mrs B abt. Eva Smith’s feelings

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She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position

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Eric confronting his father about their bad relationship.

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Because you’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble - that’s why

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Mr B bribing the Inspector to keep his mouth shut

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I’d give thousands - yes, thousands

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Birling after he finds out that the whole story of Eva Smith could be a fake

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  • (triumphantly) There you are!
  • The whole story’s just a lot of moonshine
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Sheila’s reaction to Mr B, Mrs B and Gerald’s relief at the Inspector not being real

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It frightens me the way you talk

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Stage directions describing Arthur Birling

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  • heavy looking, rather portentous man
  • rather provincial in his speech
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stage directions describing Mrs B

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  • a cold woman
  • her husband’s social superior
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stage directions describing Eric

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half shy, half assertive

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Mr B’s capitalist ideologies

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  • for lower costs and higher prices
  • hard-headed man of business
  • my duty to keep labour costs down
  • probably a socialist or some sort of crank
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Mr Birling’s dramatic irony

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  • You’ll hear some people say that war is inevitable. And to that I say - fiddlesticks!
  • unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
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Stage directions for the lighting before and after the inspector’s arrival

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pink and intimate until the inspector arrives [then it is] brighter and harder

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what Sheila says to Eric when she realises he’s drunk

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you’re squiffy

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Sheila being materialistic

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Now I really feel engaged

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Mr B attempting to impress Gerald

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  • same port your father gets from him
  • just a knighthood of course
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Mr B’s disproval of socialist ideas

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  • as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive -
    community and all that nonsense
  • a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own-
25
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inspector’s arrival stage directions

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We hear the sharp ring of a front door bell

26
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stage directions describing the inspector

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  • need not be a big man
  • impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness
27
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Mr B trying to flex onto the inspector

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I was an alderman for years - and Lord Mayor two years ago

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Inspector’s interrogation method

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One person and one line of inquiry at a time

29
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Birling’s description of poor Eva

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wretched girl’s suicide

30
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Sheila asking about Eva Smith

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Pretty?

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Sheila when she hears about Birling firing Eva off

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But these girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people

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33
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Mr Birling rejecting responsibility when faced with it to the Inspector and justifying it

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  • I can’t accept any responsibility
  • If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody… it would be very awkward wouldn’t it?
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Sheila’s reaction to Gerald telling the Inspector to stop interrogating her

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He means that I’m getting hysterical now

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Inspector talking about collective responsibility

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  • If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt
  • But each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it
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Inspector claiming that the younger gen are more susceptible to change

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We often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable

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Sheila addressing class divide

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You mustn’t try and build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. And if you do the Inspector will just break it down. And it will be all the worse when he does

38
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Sheila being inspector’s mouthpiece

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No, he’s giving us the rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves

39
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Mrs B only being interested in the gossip

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[abt Alderman Meggarty] we are learning something tonight

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Sheila being sarcastic to Gerald

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You were the wonderful fairy prince

41
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interaction between Mr B and inspector abt public men

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  • I’m a public man -
  • [massively] Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges
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Mrs B’s involvement in Eva’s case

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  • [abt Eva Smith using the name Mrs Birling] naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case
  • so I used my influence to have it refused
43
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Mrs B rejecting responsibility

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  • she only had herself to blame
  • simply because I’ve done nothing wrong - and you know it
  • But I accept no blame for it at all
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Mrs B linking the case to Eric

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Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility

45
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Mrs B’s prejudice against Eva Smith

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As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money

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Eric admitting to his involvement

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  • I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty and I threatened to make a row
  • I didn’t even remember - that’s the hellish thing
47
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Mr B being concerned about rep

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  • I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can [abt Eric stealing money]
  • There’ll be a public scandal
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Inspector’s final speech

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  • There are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us
  • We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other
  • if men will not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish
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Sheila’s distaste that the Birlings have reverted back to their old ways

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  • you’re beginning all over again to pretended that nothing much has happened
  • I suppose we’re all nice people now
50
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older Birling’s reactions to finding out that Inspector was fake

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  • [Mr B] By Jingo! A fake!
  • [Mrs B] (triumphantly) Didn’t I tell you? Didn’t I say I couldn’t imagine a real police inspector talking like that to us?
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Younger Birling’s reaction to finding out the Inspector is a fake

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  • [S] (bitterly) I suppose we’re all nice people now
  • [E] This girl’s still dead, isn’t she? Nobody’s brought her to life, have they?
  • [E] (shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her
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Gerald asking about the engagement

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What about this ring?

53
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Cyclical ending + Birling’s last dialouge

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  • the telephone rings sharply
  • A girl has just died - on her way to the Infirmary
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Key Quotes Gerald

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  • I was awfully busy at the works at the time
  • And I drink to you - I hope I can make you as happy as you deserve to be
  • You seem to be a nice well-behaved family
  • it’s a favourite haunt of the women of the town
  • I became at once the most important person in her life
  • she was very gallant about it
  • i’m rather more - upset - by this business than I probably appear to be
  • everything’s alright now sheila. what about this ring?
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Eric Key Quotes

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  • yes, you’ve piled it on a bit tonight father
  • why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?
  • could I have a drink first?
  • She was pretty and a good sport
  • then - you killed her. she came to you to protect me
  • the money’s not the important thing. it’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters
  • you lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but I can’t

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