Characters Flashcards
‘heavy looking, rather portentous man’
Mr Birling
‘mixed up together like bees in a hive’
Mr Birling
‘unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
Mr Birling
‘the wretched girl’s suicide’
Mr Birling
‘community and all that nonsense’
Mr Birling
‘Girls of that class.’
Mrs Birling
‘She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd
in a girl of her position.’
Mrs Birling
‘I did nothing I’m ashamed of.’
Mrs Birling
(On Eric’s drinking) ‘he’s only a boy.’
Mrs Birling
‘I didn’t like her manner. She impertinently made use of our name.’
Mrs Birling
‘I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me.’
Gerald Croft
‘I was in that state whena chap easily turns nasty.’
Eric
‘You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble.’
Eric
‘You killed her – and the child she’d have had too – my child’
Eric
‘You’re beginning to pretend as if nothing’s really happened at all.’
Eric
‘we helped to kill her.’
Eric
‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people.’
Sheila
‘I know I’m to blame and I’m desperately sorry.’
Sheila
‘he’s giving us rope so that we’ll hang ourselves.’
Sheila
‘I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet.’
Sheila
‘an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness’
Inspector Goole
“We are responsible for each other”
Inspector Goole
“fire and blood and anguish”
Inspector Goole
‘public men… have responsibilities as well as privileges’
Inspector Goole
