An Inspector Calls Flashcards
1
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What are some Mr Birling quotes in act 1?
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- ‘Heavy looking rather portentous man’
- ‘We’re in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity’
- ‘Hard headed, practical man of business’
- ‘Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
- ‘Silly little war scares
- ‘Cranks’
- ‘As if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive’
- ‘Still I can’t accept any responsibility’
- ‘If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people they’d soon be asking for the earth’
2
Q
What are some Inspector quotes in act 1?
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- ‘creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness’
- ‘speaks carefully, weightily’
- ‘They might. But after all it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it.’
- ‘These young women counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedrooms’
- ‘Inquiries of this sort, for instance’
3
Q
What are some Eva Smith quotes in act 1?
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- ‘Burnt her inside out, of course’
- ‘Suicide of course’
- ‘Wretched girl’s suicide’
4
Q
What are some Eric quotes in act 1?
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- ‘My god!’
- It isn’t if you can’t go and work somewhere else’
- ‘That might have started it’
5
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What are some Shiela quotes in act 1?
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- ‘Oh-how horrible! Was it an accident?’
- ‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour-they’re people’
- ‘Why the devil do you want to go upset a child like that?’ (Birling)
- ‘(miserably) So i’m really responsible?’
- ‘Looking at myself in the mirror’
6
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What are some Inspector quotes in act 2?
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- ‘And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?’
- ‘We often do with the young ones’
- ‘Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges’
7
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What are some Sheila quotes in act 2?
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- ‘You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do then the Inspector will just break it down.’
- ‘We really must stop these silly pretences’
- ‘No he’s giving us the rope so that we’ll hang ourselves’
- ‘Of course not. You were the wonderful Fairy prince’
8
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What are some Eva Smith quotes in act 2?
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- ‘A pretty, lively sort of girl, who never did anybody any harm. But she died in misery and agony-hating life’
- ‘Because she’d been turned out and turned down too many times’
- Alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate
9
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What are some Mrs Birling quotes in act 2?
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- ‘Girls of that class’
- ‘Deserving cases’
- ‘Prejudiced me against her case’
- ‘I think she had only herself to blame’
- ‘I did nothing i’m ashamed of’
- ‘It’s his responsibility’
- ‘A girl of that sort’
- ‘Confess in public his responsibility’
10
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What are some Gerald quotes in act 2?
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- ‘I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women.
- ‘Old Joe Meggarty, half drunk and goggle-eyed, had wedged her into a corner with that obscene fat carcass of his’
- ‘The girl saw me looking at her and then gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help.’
- ‘Miserable back room’
11
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What are some Mrs Birling quotes in act 3?
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- ‘Besides, you’re not the type’
12
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What are some Inspector quotes in act 3?
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- ‘There’ll be plenty of time, when i’ve gone, for you all to adjust your family relationships’
- ‘And now she’ll make you pay a heavier price still’
13
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What are some Eric quotes in act 3?
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- ‘I insisted’
- ‘I was in the state when a chap easily turns nasty’
- ‘Fat old tarts’
- ‘Because you’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble’
- ‘My child-your own grandchild’
- ‘He was our police inspecter all right’
14
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What are some Birling quotes in act 3?
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- ‘Why you hysterical young fool-get back-or i’ll’
- ‘I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next honours list’
- ‘Probably a Socialist or some sort of crank’
15
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What are some Inspector quotes from his final speech?
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- ‘There are millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us’
- ‘Their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, what we think and say and do’
- ‘We don’t live alone. We are members of one body’
- ‘the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night’
