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Mr Birling, according to the stage directions

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‘Fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech’

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Proleptically ironic statement about Mr Birling’s potential knighthood

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‘We’ll try to keep out of trouble over the next few months’

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The main reason for Sheila’s marriage

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‘For lower costs and higher prices’

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Mr Birling’s self-titling

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‘I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business’

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Mr Birling’s opinion on the titanic

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‘Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’

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Mr Birling’s opinion on WW1

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‘Silly little war scares’

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Mr Birling’s opinion on women’s clothes

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‘Clothes mean something quite different to a woman… not just something to make’em look prettier’

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Mr Birling’s opinion on social responsibility

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‘If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?’

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Mr Birling’s ‘duty’

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“It’s my duty to keep labour costs down”

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Mr Birling’s opinion on Eva Smith

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“She had a lot to say, far too much, so she had to go”

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Eric’s opinion on Mr Birling

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‘You’re not the kind of father a chap can go to when he’s in trouble, that’s why’

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Mr Birling’s first thought post-inspection

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“I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can”

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Mr Birling’s response to Eric taking responsibility

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“Don’t be in such a hurry to put yourself in court”

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Mr Birling’s reaction to the possibility of the inspector being a hoax

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“If he wasn’t [an inspector], it matters a devil of a lot. makes all the difference”

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Mr Birling’s key concern post-inspection

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‘I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next honours list’

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Mrs Birling according to the stage directions

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‘A rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior’

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Mrs Birling patronising Sheila from the outset

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‘Really, the things you girls pick up these days!’

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Mrs Birling unaware of Eric’s drinking problem

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‘He’s only a boy’

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Mrs Birling on marriage

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“When you’re married, you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend all their time and energy on their business.”

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Mrs Birling blaming her own husband

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“It wasn’t I who had her turned out of her employment – which probably began it all”

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Mrs Birling running an absolute joke of a charity
[2 quotes]

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‘We’ve done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving cases’
‘I used my influence to have it refused’

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Mrs Birling assuming the poor are all criminals
[2 quotes]

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‘She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples which were simply absurd for a girl in her position’
‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’

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Mrs Birling unwittingly condemning her own son

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‘He should be made an example of’… ‘He ought to be dealt with severely’

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Mrs Birling shocked at Eric’s behaviour

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‘You’re not that type… you don’t get drunk’

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Sheila according to the stage directions

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‘Very pleased with life and rather excited’

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Sheila conforming to her parents’ expectations at the start
[3 quotes]

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‘Mummy’, ‘daddy’
[half serious, half playful], [with mock aggressiveness], [trying to be light and easy]
‘Oh it’s wonderful! Look, mummy, isn’t it a beauty’ [kisses gerald hastily]… ‘is it the one you wanted me to have?’

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Sheila empowered to give her true opinion
[2 stage directions]

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[cutting in], [bitterly]

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Sheila humanising Mr Birling’s workers

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

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Sheila handling Gerald’s adultery maturely

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‘I don’t dislike you as I did half an hour ago, Gerald. In fact, in some odd way I respect you rather more… now at least you’ve been honest’
‘I think you’d better take this with you’ [hands him the ring]

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Sheila shocked by her parents’ reaction at the end
[3 quotes]

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‘I suppose we’re all nice people now’
‘Well he inspected us alright’
‘It frightens me the way you talk’

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Gerald’s high (and ironic) opinion of the Birling family

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‘You seem to be a nice well-behaved family’

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Gerald’s similar attitudes to Mr Birling towards workers
[2 quotes]

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‘You couldn’t have done anything else’
‘I know we’d have done the same thing’

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Gerald’s assumption that the upper classes are automatically fine upstanding citizens (+ inspector’s reply)

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‘We’re respectable citizens and not criminals’
‘Sometimes there isn’t as much of a difference as you might think’

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Gerald’s belief that information can be withheld from the inspector
(+ sheila’s reply)

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‘For god’s sake, don’t say anything to the inspector’
‘why, you fool, he knows’

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Gerald exploiting lower-class women

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‘I went down into the [stalls] bar for a drink. It’s a favourite haunt of women of the town’

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Gerald’s anagnorisis about Eva Smith’s demise

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[distressed]’sorry - I - well I’ve suddenly realised - taken it in properly - that she’s dead’

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Gerald ‘debunking’ the inspector

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‘There isn’t any such inspector. We’ve been had’
‘Everything’s alright now, Sheila. [holds up the ring] What about this ring?’

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Edna masterfully addressing all of the themes of the play in a thought-provoking, memorable and succinct remark

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‘an inspector has called’

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Eric according to the stage directions

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‘Not quite at ease, half-shy, half-assertive’

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Eric’s odd behaviour at the beginning
[3 quotes]

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[Eric suddenly guffaws. His parents look at him]
[rather noisily] ‘She’s got a nasty temper sometimes, but she’s not bad really. Good old Sheila!’
[bursting out] ‘I think that’s a damn shame’

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Eric starting to convey some socialist views

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‘It isn’t [a free country] if you can’t go and work somewhere else’

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Eric pointing out how negligent Mrs Birling is

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[bitterly] ‘you haven’t made it any easier for me, have you Mother?’

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Stage direction outlining Eric’s drinking problem

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[his whole manner with handling the decanter and then the drink shows familiarity with quick, heavy drinking]

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Eric’s explanation for why he raped Eva Smith

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‘Yes I insisted - it seems… I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty’

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Eric’s immature attitude to women
[2 quotes]

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‘I wasn’t in love or anything, but she was pretty and a good sport’
‘I hate those fat old tarts around the town’

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Eric lamenting how Eva Smith perceived his immaturity

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‘In a way she treated me as if I were a kid’

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Eric taking responsibility at the end
[2 quotes]

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‘The girl’s still dead, isn’t she? No one’s brought her to life, have they?’
‘It’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters’

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The Inspector’s entrance

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‘We hear a sharp ring of the front door bell’

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The inspector’s power over the Birling family
[2 stage directions]

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[The inspector need not be a big man but he creates at once a sense of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness]
[massively taking charge]

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The inspector immediately distancing himself from the Birlings’ lifestyle

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[dryly] ‘I don’t play golf’

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The inspector’s impact on later generations

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[coolly] ‘We often do on the younger ones. They’re more impressionable’

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The inspector’s view on social responsibility

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“We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.”

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The inspector’s final speech

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“One Eva Smith has gone… but there are millions… of Eva Smiths… all intertwined with our lives… if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.”

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The inspector’s opinion on striking

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“It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”

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The inspector’s view on upperclass behaviour

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“Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges”

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