Inspector Flashcards
“Creates”
“Creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness”
“[The lighting]”
“[The lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inspector arrives then it should be brighter and harder]”
“He speaks”
“He speaks carefully, weightily”
“Cutting”
“Cutting in”
“Public men”
“Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as priviliges”
(the young ones)
(the young ones) “are the most impressionable”
“It is”
“It is better to ask for the earth than to take it”
“If there’s”
“If there’s nothing else, we have to share our guilt”
“Put ourselves”
“Put ourselves in the place of these young women counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedroom”
“There are”
“There are a lot of young women living that sort of existence in every city and big town in this country”
“With no”
“With no money coming in, with no relatives to help her, few friends, lonely, half starved, she was feeling desperate”
“Just”
“Just used her for the end of a stupid broken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person”
“You’ve”
“You’ve had children. You must have known what she was feeling. And you slammed the door in her face”
“There are”
“There are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us”
“We don’t”
“We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other”
