An Inspector Calls Flashcards

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‘your just the kind of son in law i always wanted’

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Ambitious

wants more money

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‘after all, I don’t often make speeches about you’

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Ironic

Surprising

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‘Germans don’t want war’

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Foolish capitalist

Historical Events

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‘If you’d had any sense of loyalty’

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Valuing family loyalty

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‘But i’d a special reason for not wanting any public scan did just now’

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still obsessed with reputation

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‘the famous younger generation who know it all’

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Disrespects your people

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‘I think Sheila and I better go into the drawing room and leave you men’

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Gender role in 1912 society

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‘girls of that class’

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Class

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‘you know of course that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago and that he’s still a magistrate’

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Mirrors’ Mr.B

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‘He’s only a boy’

‘You know him Gerald and your a man - you must know it isn’t true’

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gender roles

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‘Mummy’

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Signs of childishness

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‘I know i’m to blame and i’m desperately sorry’

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Takes responsibility

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‘no he’s giving us the rope - so that we’ll hang our selves’

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Understand the situation

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‘And now at least you’ve been honest’

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Guilt

responsibility

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‘It frightens me the way you talk’

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Horrified at Gerald and parents behavior

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‘You knew it then. you began to learn something. and now you’ve stopped’

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Message of the play

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‘he could. He could have kept her on instep of throwing her out’

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contrast Mr.B

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‘Your beginning to pretend now that nothings really happened at all’

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Thinking as a Socialest

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‘You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but i’m not’

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Takes control

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‘I don;t come into this suicide business’

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Mirrors Mr.b

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‘I - well, I’ve suddenly reliesed that she’s dead’

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Takes responsibility

22
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‘I became at one the most important person in her life’

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selfish

23
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‘Because what happened to her then may have determine what happened afterwards’

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Responsibility

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‘If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt’

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Message of the play

25
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‘We often do on the younger ones. There more impressionable’

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Hopes for failure in the future

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‘So I’m really responsible’

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Behaves like a socialist/regret

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‘I know I’m to blame and I’m desperately sorry’

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Responsibility

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‘In some odd way, I rather respect you more than I’ve done before’

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Honesty

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‘We are learning something tonight’

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Ironic

30
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‘I’m a hard headed business man’

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Thinks only about himself