An Inspector Calls Flashcards
1
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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”
2
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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”
3
Q
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”
4
Q
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!”
5
Q
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”
6
Q
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”
7
Q
Setting
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- “substantial and heavily comfortable, but not cosy and homelike”
- “pink and intimate … brighter and harder”
- “champagne glasses”
8
Q
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”
9
Q
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”
10
Q
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”
11
Q
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”
12
Q
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 - “
13
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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”