Inspector Calls Flashcards
Act 1 character/context (12)
SD - “heavy looking rather Portentous” (Birling) + “rather cold” (Sybil) + “easy we’ll-bread young man-about town” (Gerald) + “half shy half assertive” (Eric)
Arthur “hard headed business man” + “Just because the minors came out on strike” + “some people say that war is inevitable” + “unsinkable absolutely unsinkable”
SD - “creates an impression of massiveness” + “speaks carefully” + “cuts in massively”
Goole “one line of inquiry at a time”
Act 1 socialism/responsibility (8)
SD - “pink and intimate” + “brighter and harder” (lighting)
Arthur “for lower costs and higher prices” + “community and all that nonsense” + “it’s my duty to keep the labour costs down” + “if you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon start asking for the Earth”
Shiela “so I’m really responsible”
Gerald “I don’t come into this suicide business”
Act 1 young vs old (4)
Shield “ I don’t believe I will (half playfully, half assertively)”
Eric “why shouldn’t they try for higher wages”
Birling “why the devil do you want to go upsetting the child like that” (abt Shiela)
Shiela “It was my own fault”
Act 1 gender (8)
SD - “pretty girl” (shiela)
Sybil “you’ll just have to get used to that’s just as I had”
Shiela “is it the one you wanted me to have?” (wedding ring)
Birling “clothes mean something different to a woman” + “token of their self-respect”
Goole “She had been very pretty”
Shiela “these girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people” + “if she’d been some miserable plain little creature” (abt Eva)
Act 1 class (8)
SD - “heavily comfortable but not cosy or homelike” + “provincial in his speech” (Birling) + “her husband’s social superior” (Sybil)
Sybil “you’re not supposed to say such things-“ (to the cook)
Birling “you might have done better for yourself socially” (to Gerald) + “wretched girl’s suicide”
Gerald “we’re respectable citizens not criminals”
Shiela “this girl” (Eva)
Act 2 gender (5)
Shiela “You think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?”(to Gerald)
Sybil “girl of that class”
Gerald “ I hate those hard - eyed dough faced women”
SD - “she hands him the ring” (Shiela to Gerald)
Sheila “Gerald set her up as his mistress and then dropped her when it suited him”
Act 2 young vs old (5)
Goole “they’re more impressionable” (younger gen)
Sybil “he’s only a boy” (abt Eric)
Shiela “I’m not a child” (to Birling)
Sybil “silly boy”
Shiela “mummy” + “mother”
Act 2 socialism/responsibility (5)
Shiela “he’s giving us the rope so we’ll hang ourselves”
Gerald “I suppose it was inevitable”
Goole “public men have responsibilities as well as privileges”
Sybil “she only had herself to blame” + “then he’d be entirely responsible”
Act 2 class (8)
Sybil “we are learning something” (abt how un classy Gerald is not how bad he is as a person) + “it’s disgusting to me” (due to Eva’s class, not cheating)
Gerald “she knew it couldn’t last” (abt Eva)
Sybil “helping deserving cases” + “prejudiced me against her case” + “and so I used my influence to have it refused” + “absurd in a girl in her position” + “girl of that sort”
Act 3 responsibility (8)
Eric “I was in a state where a chap easily turns nasty” + “you killed them both” (to Sybil abt Eva + his kid)
Goole “we are members of one body” + “they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish”
Birling “probably a socialist” +”that makes a difference” (if the inspector is fake)
Gerald “what girl? There were probably four or five different girls” + “no girl died in there today” (in the infirmary)
Act 3 gender (4)
Eric “I hate these fat old tarts round the town”
Goole “as if she were an animal” (Eric’s treatment of Eva)
Birling “you’d better ask Gerald for that ring” + “then you’ll feel better” (to Sheila)
Act 3 old vs young (5)
Eric “she talked to me as if I were a kid” + “you’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble”
Birling “hysterical young fool” (to Eric)
Eric “you’re beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happened at all”
Billing “the famous younger generation that knows it all”
Act 3 class (1)
Goole “there are millions and millions of Eva Smith’s and John Smiths”
