An Inspector Calls - Quotes Flashcards
Mr Birling: HHB
Hard headed businessman
Mrs B: GOTC
Girls of that class
Sheila: BTGACLTP
But these girls arent cheap labour, they’re people
Gerald: WRCANC
We’re respectable citizens and not criminals
Mr B: TSBAFTE Inspector: IBTAFTETTTI
Mr B: They’d soon be asking for the Earth Inspector: Its better to ask for the earth than to take it
Eric: WSTTFHW
Why shouldnt they try for higher wages
Mr B: ISTIACOW
I say there isnt any chance of war
Mrs B: calls Sheila a HC and Mr B called Eric a DF
Hysterical child, damned fool
Eric: TFRTIDWID
The fact remains that I did what I did
Sheila: MISAB End: MSP
Mummy isnt she a beauty, Mother stop please
Mr B: HYTIYWTSH
Hold your tongue if you want to stay here
Gerald: IHTHEDFW
I hate those hard-eyed dough faced women
Mr B: TMELP, TOTSR
To make em look prettier, token of their self-respect
Mr B: SHALTS - FTM - SSHTG
She had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go
Gerald: YTYWOTBPAUADT
You think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things
Gerald: SWYAFAC
She was young and fresh and charming
Eric: SWAGS
She was a good sport
Mrs B: BQSTYFCDWWOTD
Be quiet so that your father can decide what we ought to do
Mrs B: YHTGUTT,JAID
You’ll have to get used to that, just as I did
Mr B: MUTLBIAH - CAATN
Mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense
Goole: WAMOOB. WARFEO
We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other
Mr B: AMHTMHOW - HTLAH - AHFT
A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too
Mr B: UAU
Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
Mrs B: ICIDMD IDNW
I consider I did my duty I’ve done nothing wrong
Goole: BEOYHTKH
But each of you helped to kill her
Sheila: IKITB - AIDS
I know I am to blame - and I’m desperately sorry
Eric: WEHTKH
We all helped to kill her
Gerald: EARN,S. WATR?
Everythings all right now, Sheila. What about this ring?
Goole: IMWNLTL,TTWBTIIFABAA
If men will not learn their lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish
Sheila: IBBT.IKID,IAOI
I behaved badly too. I know I did, Im ashamed of it
Eric: YKH - MC -YOG
You killed her - my child - your own grandchild
Edna stage directions : EIITATDASTFS
Edna is instructed to answer the door and serve the family silently
Sheila: ISWANPN
I suppose we’re all nice people now
Eric: IWITSWACETN
I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty
Goole: BTAMAMOESAJSSLWU
But there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us
How is the lighting presented in the stage directions at the start then when the inspector arrives? Its significance?
- Start - pink - reflecting happiness and rose tinted view of society that the Birlings have
- Warm and intimate - reflects their ignorance and blindness to harsh realities of society
- Inspector - lighting brightens - his arrival will expose the truth of the Birlings and reveal their hidden sins and predjudices
What stage direction show the lighting at the start and when the Inspector arrives?
The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives, and then it should be** brighter and harder**
UAU - Mr B analysis
- dramatic irony
- Titanic - symbolises UC - Priestley wants to show their power and privelege will also be sunk by the peace and elecion after WW2
- Priestley wants audience to be the iceburg - sink cap. - metaphor
- People like B - short-sighted, dont learn from history
- sinking of Titanic - how cap and class divisions can lead to distaster when ppl ignore responsibilities
- society need to change - learn from mistakes about class inequality
LBIAH analysis
- believes in individualism
- bees - teamwork and cooperation - support
- selfish + outdated views
- ironic because 1912 (set) - Birling believes society shouldnt work together
- 1945 audience knows this mindset will lead to diaster - teamwork in the world war
- Birling doesnt believe in progress, audience has already seen it happen
TGACL - TP analysis
- Message - workers should be treated with dignity, not exploited
- character development - immature and self -abosrbed –> questions and challenges fathers views, shows empathy
- women standing up for each other
- “these” despite the detachment, she feels connected with the fact that they are both women, facing injustic in different yet similar ways
GOTC analysis
- dehumanisation - “girl” + generalisation, sees all working-class women the same
- “that” - dismissive, loaded with judgement, digust - reinforces class divide, rich look down on the poor
- “class” - class systemw here rich deserve priveldge and poor deserve suffering
- assumes all working class womena re liars and morally corrupt
- reflects predujice in Edwardian Britain
- Her prejudice is encouraged by patriarchal society
TYWCTP - Inspector
These young women counting their pennies
YMBSTHBJOH - inspector
You might be said to have been jealous of her
YMBSTHBJOH - inspector
Analysis
- Priestley chooses vanity - partiarchy dont have careers but status through their looks - actriveness is the currency - critcism of patriarchy
- Priestley chooses jealousy - link to morailty play - each character represents a sin - christianity = socialism
NY. ITS - Sheila
Not Yet. Its too soon
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