Inspector Calls Flashcards
Mr birling quote about a scandal
“There’ll be a public scandal “
Mr birling quote about hard headed
“I speak as a hard-headed practical man of business “
Mr birling quote about the titanic
“Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”
Mr birling quote about socialism (one word)
“Nonsense”
Mr birling quote about looking after himself
“Mind his own business and look after himself”
Mr birling quote about the inspectors concern
“Well inspector, I don’t see how that is any concern of yours how I choose to run my business”
Mr birling quote about responsibility
“I can’t accept any responsibility “
Mr birling quote to Shiela
“Run along”
Mr birling quote about rates
“If they didn’t like these rates they could go work someplace else”
Mr birling quote about trouble
“Get into trouble? Go on the streets?”
Mr birling quote about the younger people
“You three young people”
Mr birling quote about money being stolen
“Until every penny of the money you stole is repaid “
Mrs birling quote about important work
“Men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on business”
Mrs birling quote about lower class
“Girls of that class”
Mrs birling quote about the affair
“Disgusting affair”
Mrs birling quote about Eric
“He’s only a boy”
Mrs birling quote about bed
“I think you ought to go to bed”
Mrs birling quote about blaming Eva
“She had only herself to blame”
Mrs birling quote about the inspectors power
“You have no power to make me change my mind”
Mrs birling quote about accepting responsibility
“I accept no blame for it at all”
Gerald quote about Eva’s appearance
“She was young and pretty and warm hearted - and intensely grateful “
Gerald quote about being upset
“I’m rather more - upset - by this business than I probably appear to be”
Gerald quote about the inspectors credibility
“There isn’t any such inspector. We’ve been had”
Gerald quote about moving on to Shiela
“Everything’s all right now Shiela”
Gerald quote about going to Eva’s aid
“Nothing less than a cry for help”
Gerald quote about allowing
“I’d allowed her”
Gerald quote about darling
“Now listen, darling”
Gerald quote about the affair
“You know, it wasn’t disgusting “
Gerald quote about helping the inspector
“Is there anything else you want to know “
Gerald quote about his appearance
“Well-bred young man”
Gerald quote about proof
“We’ve no proof”
Gerald quote about the family
“I insist upon being one of the family now”
Shiela quote about labour
“These girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people”
Shiela quote about responsibility (?)
“So I’m really responsible ?”
Shiela quote about walls between classes
“You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl “
Shiela quote about the ring (excitement)
“Oh - it’s wonderful! Look - mummy”
Shiela quote about apologising
“I’m sorry daddy”
Shiela quote about responsibility (fault)
“It was my own fault”
Shiela quote about the ring (?)
“Is this the one that you wanted me to have?”
Shiela quote about the inspectors omniscience
“He knows, of course he knows”
Shiela quote about not leaving
“Mother I couldn’t possibly go”
Shiela quote about learning
“ you don’t seem to have learnt anything”
Shiela quote about inspecting
“He inspected us all right”
Eric quote about male agression
“I insisted…I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty”
Eric quote about wages
“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages”
Eric quote about his child (…)
“You killed her…and the child”
Eric quote about his child (-)
“My child - your own grandchild - damn you, damn you”
Eric quote about drunkness
“Squiffy”
Eric quote about political knowledge
“What about war”
Eric quote about womens clothes
“You’d think a girl had never had any clothes before she get married. Women are potty about em”
Eric quote about where Eva could work
“It isn’t if you can’t go and work someplace else”
Eric quote about his entrance
“Eric enters, looking extremely pale and distressed”
Eric quote about love
“I wasn’t in love with her or anything”
Eric quote about forgetting
“My god - I’m not likely to forget “
Eric quote about the inspector
“He was our police inspector all right”
Eric quote about Shiela (positive)
“Sheila’s right”
Eric quote about Shiela (negative)
“Why, you little sneak”
Inspector quote about Eva’s situation/ place in society
“Put ourselves in the place of these young women”
Inspector quote about the suicide
“She’s swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course. She was in great agony”
Inspector quote about Eva’s commonness
“There are millions and millions and millions of Eva smiths and John smiths”
Inspector quote about the lighting
“Brighter and harder “
Inspector quote about his impression
“Impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness”
Inspector quote about his clothes
“Dressed in a plain darkish suit”
Inspector quote about one body (socialism)
“We are all members of one body”
Inspector quote about responsibility
“We are responsible for each other”
Inspector quote about patience
“I’m losing all patience with you people”
Inspector quote about the future war
“Fire and blood and anguish”
Inspector quote about the Earth
“Better to ask for the Earth than to take it “
Inspector quote about the younger generation
“We often do on the younger ones, their more impressionable”
Inspector quote about sharing
“If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt”
When is inspector calls set
1912
When was inspector calls written
1944
Why did priestly set the play in 1912
Because it represented the opposite to what people were hoping to see in 1944
What is socialism based on
Giving power and rights to the working class
Work unions and workers rights
In 1942 priestly helped set up which political party
The common wealth party
Argued for public land ownership, greater democracy and morality in politics
Merged with the Labour Party in 1945
By what year did the Labour Party win the most number of seats in parliament for the first time
1945
How many Britons voted for Labour in 1945
12 million
What is Mr Birlings focus always on
Improving social position
Priestly uses Mrs birlings unfair judgement of Eva to show…
… how unjust charity systems were, how the vulnerable in society need protection
