AIC Quotes Flashcards
Theme of:
Responsibility
Character:
Inspector
“One Eva smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us”
Inspector Act 3
Themes of: Society Class Gender Morality
Character:
Sheila
Mr Birling
“These girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people”
Sheila Act 1
Theme of:
Class
Morality
Character:
Sheila
“You mustn’t try to build a wall between us and that girl”
Sheila Act 2
Character of:
Inspector
“The lighting should be pink and intimate until the inspector arrives and then it should be brighter and harder”
Stage Directions Act 1
Theme of :
Responsibility
Morality
Class
Character:
Inspector
“We are all members of one body”
Inspector Act 3
Theme of:
Responsibility
Character:
Inspector
“A chain of events”
Inspector Act 3
Theme of:
Responsibility
Morality
Age
Character:
Sheila
Mr Birling
Mrs Birling
“It’s you two who are being childish - trying not to face facts”
Sheila Act 3
Theme of:
Responsibility
Character:
Inspector
“If men will not learn that lesson , then they will be taught it in fire, blood and anguish”
Inspector Act 3
Theme:
Gender
Age
Character:
Mrs Birling
Sheila
“When you’re married you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business”
Mrs Birling Act 1
Theme of:
Responsibility
Morality
Character:
Inspector
“She swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out”
Inspector Act 1
Theme of:
Responsibility
Age
Society
“It’s about time you learn to face up a to few responsibilities”.
“Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”
Mr Birling Act 1
Theme:
Responsibility
Morality
Character:
Mr Birling?
“You’d have to think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we’re all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense”
Mr Birling?
Theme:
Responsibility
Character:
Sheila
Gerald
“Why you fool he knows”
Sheila Act 1
Theme:
Responsibility
Morality
Character:
Eric
“Well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty”
Eric Act 3
