Eric Birling Quotes Flashcards
A1 - early
‘early twenties’
A1 - ease
‘not quite at ease’
A1 - assertive
‘half shy, half assertive’
A1 - laugh
‘Suddenly I felt I just had to laugh.’
A1 - remember
‘(eagerly) Yes, I remember – (but he checks himself)’
Could be about Eva and the predicament he placed her in
A1 - something
GERALD – ‘unless Eric’s been up to something …
ERIC
‘(who is uneasy, sharply) Here, what do you mean?’
A1 - wages
stay
‘Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices.’
‘I’d have let her stay’
Oedipus Complex – a sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex he challenges his father for the views on society – how the working class should be treated
A3- nasty
‘I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty, and I threatened to make a row’
A3 - hellish
‘that’s the hellish thing. Oh – my God!’
A3 - chap
‘you’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble’
A3 - killed
TO MRS BRILING – ‘Then – you killed her … and the child she’d have had too – my child – your own Grandchild’
A3 - forget
‘I’m never likely to forget’
Forget what he did
A3 - inspector
‘He was our police inspector all right’
A3 - girl
’It’s what happened to the girl and what we did to her that matters’
A3 - nonsense
‘I don’t see much nonsense about it when a girl goes and kills herself’
