Inspecter Goole Flashcards
“But after all it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”
Goole
“You think yound women ought to protected against unpleasant and disturbing”
Goole
“You see we have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt”
Goole
“Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges”
Goole
“I think you did something terribly wrong and that your going to pay for”
Goole
(firmly) Yes. (As Birling looks like interrupting explosively.) I know - he’s your son amd this is your house - but look at him. He needs a drink now just to see him through.’
Goole
“Each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it. (He looks from one to the other of them carefully.) But them I dont think you ever will.
Goole
“One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do. We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and bloody and anguish. Good night.”
Suggests the name eva smith is so generic that eva smith can be more than 1 person