AIC quotes Flashcards
stage lighting ‘pink and intimate’
‘lighter and harder’
rose tinted glasses, a superficial reality before inspector enlightens birlings
when inspector arrives, atmosphere changes immediately POWER
‘ive learnt plenty tonight’
birling feels he has learnt plenty but means it in terms of becoming aware of events but has not learnt any moral lesson from inspector
POWER
‘i protest against the way in which my daughter, a young unmarried girl is being dragged into this’
birling feels as sheila is unmarried she is weak and cannot take care of herself
links to context GENDER
‘but these girls arent cheap labour- they’re people’
sheila humanises eva as her parents fail to do so
‘your daughter isnt living on the moon. she’s here in brumley too’
inspector conveys how each person is together responsible, sheila is too sheltered by parents views
‘she was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in her position’
mrs b does not understand eva’s desperation, sees lower class women as inferior
‘hard headed practical man of business’
‘lower costs and higher prices’
money and profit is the sole motivation for everything in capitalist edwardian society
‘one eva smith has gone - but there are millions and millions of eva smiths and john smiths still left with us’
generic names to zoom out and portray this widespread issue
‘almost certain for a knighthood’
‘unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
‘i say there isn’t a chance of war’
selfish and arrogant, dramatic irony as a 1946 audience would know this is wrong
power struggle he feels with inspector and tries to reassert his dominance
‘we are all responsible for eachother’
‘we are all members of one body’
inspector + priestley believe we should look after each other
‘you and i aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner’
sheila is mature and can now understand the changes to her morals must be made
‘i can’t help thinking about this girl- destroying herself so horribly- and i’ve been so happy tonight’
sheila has empathy for eva and has taken time to think about eva smith and flaws in capitalist beliefs
‘if youve nothing more sensible than that to say sheila, youd better keep quiet’
‘the younger ones theyre more impressionable’
inspector highlights generational divide, he is on their side
preistley’s message is to listen to the younger generation
‘all mixed up like bees in a hive’
his example is flawed as bees work together to help eachother so is the opposite of the message he tried to convey
‘as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!’
mrs birling stereotyping eva assuming all they want is money
when in reality, it is the birlings who try to take money
