aic moments Flashcards
STAGE DIRECTIONS - BEGINNING
- ‘substantial’, ‘heavily comfortable’, ‘but not cosy and homelike’
- ‘the lighting should be pink and intimate until the inspector arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder’
Birling is a ‘heavy looking’ ‘portentous’ man - ‘rather provincial in his speech’
Mrs Birling is ‘a rather cold woman’ and ‘her husband’s social superior’
Sheila is a ‘pretty girl’ who is ‘very pleased with life’ and ‘rather excited’
Gerald is an ‘easy well-bred young man about town’
Eric is ‘half-shy and half-assertive’
MR BIRLING’S SPEECH
‘I speak as a hard-headed business man’
to war: ‘fiddlesticks’
‘aeroplanes’ ‘automobile’ ‘ships’
‘unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
‘there’ll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere, except in Russia which will always be behind naturally.’
talking to Gerald
‘Lady Croft - while she doesn’t object to my girl - feels you might have done better for yourself socially - …. it’s only natural’
‘clothes means something quite different to a woman’ ‘a sign or token of their self respect’
‘a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too, of course - ‘
‘community and all that nonsense’
THE INSPECTOR ARRIVES/MR BIRLING CONFESSES HIS PART
‘obviously it has nothing to do with the wretched girl’s suicide’
‘a chain of events’ - the inspector
‘Still, I can’t accept any responsibility’
SHEILA CONFESSION
‘There are a lot of women living that sort of existence in every city and big town in this country, Miss Birling. If there weren’t, the factories and warehouses wouldn’t know where to look for cheap labour. Ask you father.’
‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people’
