AIC Quotes Flashcards
Mr Birling talking about clothes
Clothes mean something quite different to a woman
Mr Birling talking about the poor
They’d soon be asking the earth
Mr Birling trying to show off wealth to Gerald
Its exactly the same port as your father gets
Mr Birling talking about young people
The famous younger generation who know it all
Sybil belittling poor people
Girls of that class
Sybil talking about Eva
She was giving herself ridiculous airs
Sybils ignorance about the poor
As if girls of that class would ever refuse money
What is sybil described as
Her husbands social superior
Sheila asking about Eva
Was she pretty ?
Was it an accident ?
Sheila commenting on her father using poor people
But these girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people
Sheila Act 3 to parents
It frightens me the way you talk
Describing Eric Act 1
You’re squiffy
Eric talking to parents A3
I am ashamed of you
Eric ashamed of self and family A3
It doesn’t alter the fact that we all helped kill her
Stage directions describing Gerald
Easy, well bred young man about the town
Gerald talking about Eva
I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me
Gerald realising inspector was fake
There isn’t such inspector, we have been had
Gerald comforting Sheila
Everything’s all right now. What about this ring ?
Describing Inspector
He creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness
Inspector showing socialist views
We don’t live alone. We are members of one body
Inspector showing Mr Birling consequences on not raising wages of Eva.
Now she’ll make you pay a heavier price still
Mr Birling showing capitalist views.
As if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive
Mr Birling ignorance to Titanic
Absolutely unsinkable.
