Inspector Calls Flashcards
Arthur Birling quotation to do with him being keen to impress
“Finchley told me it’s exactly the same port your father gets from him”
Arthur Birling quotation to do with him being dismissive
“there’s a lot of wild talk about possible labour trouble (…) Don’t worry. We’ve passed the worst of it”
Arthur Birling quotation to do with dramatic irony and lack of credibility
1) “the Titanic […] absolutely unsinkable”
2) “some people say that war is inevitable. And to that I say fiddlesticks!”
Arthur Birling quotation to do with selfishness
“…as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive , community and all that nonsense”
Arthur Birling quotation to do with him being superior
“If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth”
Arthur Birling quotation to do with right wing
“A man has to come to mind his own business and look after himself and his own”
Arthur Birling quotation to do with him being uncaring
“We were having a nice little family celebration tonight. And a nasty mess you’ve made of it now…”
Arthur Birling quotations to do with him valuing reputation
1) “there’ll be a public scandal”
2) “I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can”
3) “when this comes out at the inquest, it isn’t going to do us much good”
Arthur Birling quotation to do with him bheing ambitious
“Perhaps we may look forword to the time when the Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing , but are working together”
Eric Birling quotation to do with him being remorsful
“You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but I can’t”
Eric Birling quotation to do with him being ashamed
“…don’t forget I’m ashamed of you as well”
Eric Birling quotation to do with being supportive
“I insisted on giving her enough money to keep her going”
Eric Birling quotation to do with him being responsible
“You’re beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happend at all. And I can’t really see it like that”
Eric Birling quotations to do with him being patronised
1) “In a way, she treated me … as if were a kid”
2) “Just keep quiet,Eric, and don’t get excited”
3) “You youngsters”
4) “Just you keep out of this”
Eric Birling quotation to do with him willing to speak up
“He could of have kept her on instead of thhrowing her out”
Gerald Croft quotation to do with him being a young capatalist
Birling: “for lower costs and higher prices”
Gerald: “Hear, Hear!”
Gerald Croft quotation to do with him having good intentions
“I made her go to Morgan Terrace because I was sorry for her”
Gerald Croft quotation to do with him being unfaithful
“I did keep a girl last summer. I’ve admitted it”
Gerald Croft quotation to do with him being favoured by Birling
1) “Let me finish, Eric. You’ve a lot to learn yet”
2) “You’re just the kind of son in law I always wanted”
Gerald Croft quotation to do with being intolerant of lower classes
“I hate those hard eyed dough faced women”
Sheila Birling quotation to do with her feeling guilty
“I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel alot worse”
Sheila Birling quotation to do with her being bitter
“I’m supposed to be engaged to the hero of it”
Sheila Birling quotation to do with her being responsible
“Miss Birling has just been made to understand what she did to this girl. She feel responsible”
Sheila Birling quotation to do with her maturing
“You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here”
Sheila Birling quotation to do with her being socially aware
“These girls aren’t cheaper labour
Sheila Birling quotation to do with her being protected
“there isn’t the slightest reason why my daughter should be dragged into this unpleasant business”
Sheila Birling quotation to do with her hope for the future
“They’re more impressionable […] … the young ones”
Inspector Goole quotation to do with him being cunning
“No hushing up, eh? Make an example of the young man, eh? Public confession of responsibility … um?”
Inspector Goole quotation to do with him not being intitmidated by class
1) “You heard what I said before, Mr Croft”
2) “Don’t stammer and yammer at me again, man. I’m losing all patience with you people.”
Inspector Goole quotation to do with him representing Priestley’s voice and ideas
“We don’t live alone. We are members of one body”
Inspector Goole quotation to do with him being forcful
1) “I’m not going until I know all that happend”
2) “(sharply) Come along, Mr Croft. What happend?”
Inspector Goole quotation to do with being influential
“You seem to have made a great impression on this child, Inspector”
Inspector Goole quotation to do with him being moral
1) “We have to sahre something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt”
2) “Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as we as privileges”
Inspector Goole quotation to do with being enigmatic
“There’s no Inspector Goole on the police. That man definetely wasn’t a police inspector at all”
Sybil Birling quotation to do with her being arrogant
“He certainly didn’t make me confess”
Sybil Birling quotation to do with her lacking empathy
“I’ll tell you what I told her. Go and look for the father of the child”
Sybil Birling quotation to do with her lacking regret
“You’re quite wrong to suppose I shall regret what I did”
Sybil Birling quotation to do with being prejudiced
1) “Girls of that class”
2) “She called herself Mrs Birling… it was simply a peice of gross impertinence
Sybil Birling quotation to do with being superior
“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money”
Sybil Birling quotation to do with her having no remorse
“She only had herself to blame”
What era was IC set in
Edwardian era
What term could the Birling family be labelled as
“bourgeoisie” is a term that emerged following the French Revolution (1789/1799). It refers to the wealthy middle class groups who are seen as dominant in society and who make money from the efforts of the “proletariat” (working class)
Who does Mr Birling mock in the play
H.G Wells (1866/1946), a prominent author who held socialist beliefs. Wells would have been known in both 1912 and 1945
What prompted Priestly to write about a worker protest
The Jarrow Crusade: this was the name given to a protest against unemployment in October 1930. Groups of unemployed workers marched from the town of Jarrow (near Newcastle) to London carrying a petition to British government (290 miles). The march caught widespread attention and is seen as a memnorable moment in the relation to workers’ rights.
What does Priestly make the Birling family commit in oder to heighten the seriousness of their actions
Seven deadly sins: lust, greed, envy, gluttony, sloth, pride, wrath: all can be identified in the Birlings and their actions
