An Inspector Calls Flashcards

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Act 1 Part 1

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  • Arthur Birling: “It’s one of the happiest nights of my life”
  • Gerald: “[laughs] You seem to be a nice well-behaved family”
  • Inspector: “I’d like some information, if you don’t mind”
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Act 1 Part 2

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  • Sheila: “What do you mean by saying that? You talk as if we were responsible –”
  • Sheila: “[miserably] So i’m really responsible?”
  • Gerald: “So – for God’s sake – don’t say anything to the Inspector”
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Act 2 Part 1

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  • Inspector: “We’ll have to share our guilt”
  • Mrs Birling: “Girls of that class”
  • Gerald: “All she wanted was to talk - a little friendliness”
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Act 2 Part 2

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  • Mrs Birling: “I’m very sorry. But I think she had only herself to blame!”
  • Mrs Birling: “As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!”
  • Sheila: “[with sudden alarm] Mother - stop! - stop!”
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Act 3 Part 1

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  • Mr Birling (to Sheila): “[very sharply] You heard what I said”
  • Eric: “You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble”
  • Mr Birling (to Eric): “[furious, intervening] Why you hysterical young fool - get back - or I’ll -“
  • Inspector: “We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other”
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Act 3 Part 2

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  • Sheila: “Everything we said had happened really had happened”
  • Arthur: “[heartily] Nonsense! You’ll have a good laugh over it yet”
  • Sheila: “You began to learn something. And now you’ve stopped”
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Setting

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  • “substantial and heavily comfortable, but not cosy and homelike”
  • “pink and intimate … brighter and harder”
  • “champagne glasses”
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Inspector Goole

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  • “Yes, but you can’t. It’s too late. She’s dead.”
  • “Apologize for what - doing my duty?”
  • “their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering, and chance of happiness”
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Arthur Birling

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  • “working together - for lower costs and higher prices”
  • “You’ve a lot to learn yet. And I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business”
  • “And we don’t guess - we’ve had experience - and we know
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Sybil Birling

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  • “Girls of that class -“
  • “I think she only had herself to blame”
  • “Besides, you’re not that type - you don’t get drunk”
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Sheila Birling

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  • “I’ll never, never do it again to anybody”
  • “No, he’s giving us rope - so that we’ll hang ourselvws”
  • “Mother - I begged you and begged you to stop”
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Eric Birling

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  • “Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?”
  • “I hate these fat old tarts round the town - the ones I see some of your respectable friends with -“
  • “you killed them both - damn you, damn you - “
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Change (5)

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  • Arthur: “there’ll be a public scandal - unless we’re lucky and who here will suffer from that more than I will?”
  • Sheila: “you don’t seem to have learnt anything”
  • Eric: “you’re beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happened”
  • Mrs Birling: “In the morning they’ll be as amused as we are”
  • Gerald: “Everything’s alright now, Sheila”
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