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Sheila

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A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited

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Sheila

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Yes, go on, Mummy

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Sheila

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(rather distressed) I can’t help thinking about this girl- destroying herself so horribly- and I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn’t told me.

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Sheila

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But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people

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Sheila

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She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.

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Sheila

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I went to the manager and told him this girl had been very impertinent – and – and -

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Sheila

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And if I could help her now, I would-

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Sheila

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I’ll never, never do it again to anybody…I feel now I can never go there again

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Sheila

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Why- you fool- he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet. You’ll see. You’ll see

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Sheila

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You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do the Inspector will just break it down. And it’ll be all the worse when he does

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Sheila

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No, he’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves

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Sheila

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Bitterly ”I suppose we’re all nice people now”

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Sheila

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“He inspected us all right.”

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Sheila

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“It frightens me the way you talk”

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Inspector on Eva Smith/Daisy Renton

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“Two hours ago a young woman died in the Infirmary. She’d been taken there this afternoon because she’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course”

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Mr B on Eva Smith/Daisy Renton

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“Now – about this girl, Eva Smith. I remember her quite well now. She was a lively good-looking girl – country-bred, I fancy – and she’d been working in one of our shops for over a year. A good worker too.”

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Sheila on Eva Smith

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“She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.”

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Inspector on Eva Smith

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“…and died, after several hours of agony…”

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Gerald on Daisy Renton

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“She was young and pretty and warm-hearted- and intensely grateful. I became at once the most important person in her life- you understand?”

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Mrs B on Eva Smith

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“She was giving herself ridiculous airs…claiming elaborate fine feelings…that were simply absurd in a girl in her position.”

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Mrs B on Eva Smith

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“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!”

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Eric on Daisy Renton

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“I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty and a good sport-”

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Eric on Daisy Renton

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“she didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her- and all that. In a way, she treated me- as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as she was.”

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Sheila on Eric with Daisy Renton

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“Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person.”

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Inspector on Eva Smith

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“But remember this. One Eva Smith has gone- but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do.”

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Eric

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In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive

27
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Eric

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Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices

28
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Eric

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it isn’t as if you can go and work somewhere else

29
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Eric

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He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough luck

30
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Eric

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I’d have let her stay

31
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Eric

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Well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and I threatened to make a row

32
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Eric

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And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember- that’s the hellish thing

33
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Eric

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I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty and a good sport-

34
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Eric

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she didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her- and all that. In a way, she treated me- as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as she was

35
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Eric

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You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble- that’s why

36
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Eric

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Then- you killed her. She came to you to protect me- and you turned her away-yes, and you killed her-and the child she’d have had too- my child- your own grandchild- you killed them both- damn you, damn you-

37
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Eric

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He was our police inspector all right

38
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Eric

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(shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and that’s what matters-

39
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Inspector Goole

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

40
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Inspector

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There are a lot of young women… if there weren’t the factories and warehouses wouldn’t know where to look for cheap labour. Ask your father

41
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Inspector

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Sometimes, there isn’t as much difference as you think … I wouldn’t know where to draw the line

42
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Inspector

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You were annoyed with yourself and passed the annoyance onto her

43
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Inspector

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She wanted to keep this youngster out of any more trouble – isn’t that so?

44
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Inspector

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You’re offering the money at the wrong time, Mr Birling

45
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Inspector

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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

46
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Inspector

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an impression of massiveness, solidarity and purposefulness

47
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Gerald Croft

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And I’ve told you – I was awfully busy at the works all that time

48
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Gerald

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I didn’t install her there so I could make love to her… I was sorry for her

49
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Gerald

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She told me she’d been happier than she’d ever been before

50
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Gerald

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Everything’s alright now sheila, what about this ring?

English Lit Paper 1 GCSE Quotes (5 decks)

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