Eric Flashcards
Quotes at the beginning of the play: Eric Birling (x3)
(SD) Not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
(Sheila about Eric) “You’re squiffy”
Eric is “UNEASY” when Mr.B and Gerald joke that Eric has been ‘up to something’ when Insp.Goole arives.
Quotes during interrogation: Eric Birling (x4)
“Well, I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty, and i threatened to cause a row.”
(Insp.Goole) “You treated her as if she were an animal, a thing, not a person.”
“I wasn’t in love with her or anything - but i liked her - she was pretty and a good sport.”
(Nearly at breaking point) “Then - you killed her… you turned her away - yes, and you killed her - and the child she’d have had too - my child - your own grandchild - you killed them both - damn you, damn you”
Quotes at the end: Eric Birling (x4)
(Laughing) “ Oh - for God’s sake! What does it matter whether they give you a knighthood or not?”
“Im ashamed of you as well - yes, both of you!”
(SD) Eric ‘laughs rather hysterically’, ‘cutting in’, ‘shouting’
You’re beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happened at all. And i can’t see it like that. A girl is still dead, isn’t she?
