An Inspector Calls Quotes Flashcards
Who says ‘You’re the kind of son-in-law I always wanted’?
Mr Burling (said to Gerald to try to increase his chance of partnering with his family business)
Who says ‘Burnt her inside out… she was in great agony’?
Inspector Goole (said as he first enters to immediately treat all members of the family as one - not pretecting the younger/female members from the reality of the situation)
Who says ‘It’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters’?
Eric (said to show his acceptance towards his actions, whilst also trying to get his family to accept their actions)
Who says ‘When you’re married, you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all heir time and energy on their business’?
Mrs Birling (said to Shiela - reinforcing Mr Burling’s views on the importance of business)
Who says ‘For God’s sake - don’t say anything to the Inspector’?
Gerald (said to show his opinion on the importance of perception to other people. He is worried that, if they were to admit to what they had done, this would affect their business due to public perception)
Who says ‘These people are not cheap labour’?
Shiela (said to Mr Birling in order highlight the inequality between classes of society at that time)
Who says ‘I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can’?
Mr Birling (said after the family have uncovered the Inspector as a fake in order to show how he cares more about his reputation and the repuatation of his family than wider society)
Who says ‘I was so happy tonight - oh, I wish you hadn’t told me’?
Shiela (said at the beginning of the play to highlight her initial innocence and ignorance of situations that do not initially immediately affect her)
Who says ‘I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me’?
Gerald (said to imply that he continued the affair with Daisy Renton out of pity)
Who says ‘You’ll be able to divide the responsability between you when I’m gone’?
Inspector Goole (said to implicitly suggest that all members of the family are all as responsable as each other)
Who says ‘I accept to blame at all’ and ‘I blame the young man who was the father of her child’?
Mrs Birling (said to seemingly pass the blame out of the family. However, this is ironic because it soon becomes clear that Eric was the father of Eva Smith’s unborn child)
Who says ‘…my child - your own grandchild - you killed them both - damn you, damn you!’?
Eric (said to pass the plame back to Mrs Birling after they have discovered that Er was the father of Eva Smith’s unborn child)
