Inspector Calls Flashcards
Stage directions - “The lighting should be ____ and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives, and then it should be _______ and _____.”
Stage directions - “The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder.”
Stage directions - “We hear a _____ ring of a front door bell. _______ stops to listen.”
Stage directions - “We hear a sharp ring of a front door bell. Birling stops to listen.”
Stage directions - “are seated at the table…with ______ ______ at one end, his ____ at the other”
Stage directions - “are seated at the table…with Arthur Birling at one end, his wife at the other”
The Inspector - “…he ______ at once an _________ of massiveness, ________ and purposefulness”
The Inspector - “…he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness”
The Inspector - “A _____ of _____”
The Inspector - “A chain of events”
The Inspector - “If there’s ______ else we have to _____ our _____”
The Inspector - “If there’s nothing else we have to share our guilt”
The Inspector - “But __________ this. One ___ _____ has gone- but there are ________ and millions and ________ of Eva Smiths”
The Inspector - “But remember this. One Eva Smith has gone- but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths”
Mr Birling - “You’ll ____ some people say that ___ is _________. And to that I say – ___________!”
Mr Birling - “You’ll hear some people say that war is inevitable. And to that I say – fiddlesticks!”
Mr Birling - “I can’t ______ any _____________.”
Mr Birling - “I can’t accept any responsibility.”
Mr Birling - “It’s my ____ to keep _______ costs ____.”
Mr Birling - “It’s my duty to keep labour costs down.”
Mr Birling - “There’ll be a public _______… and who here will ______ for that more than I will?”
Mr Birling - “There’ll be a public scandal… and who here will suffer for that more than I will?”
“[Mrs Birling] is about _____, a rather cold woman and her husband’s ______ _______.”
“[Mrs Birling] is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.”
Mrs Birling - “I didn’t like her ______”
Mrs Birling - “I didn’t like her manner”
Mrs Birling - ”I’ll tell you what I told ___. Go and look for the ______ of the child. It’s his ____________.”
Mrs Birling - ”I’ll tell you what I told her. Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility.”
Mrs Birling - “But I ______ no _____ for it at all.”
Mrs Birling - “But I accept no blame for it at all.”
Sheila - “Sheila is a ______ girl in her early twenties, very _______ with life and rather _______.”
Sheila - “Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.”
Sheila - “But these girls aren’t ______ ______ – they’re ______.”
Sheila - “But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people.”
Sheila - ”You mustn’t try to _____ up a kind of ____ between us and that girl.”
Sheila - ”You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl.”
Sheila - “___ and _ aren’t the ____ people who sat down to ______ here.”
Sheila - “You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here.”
Eric - “The ______ not the important thing. It’s what ________ to the girl and what we ___ to her that _______.”
Eric - “The money’s not the important thing. It’s what happened to the girl and what we did to her that matters.”
Eric - “I didn’t even ________ – that’s the _______ thing. Oh – my ___!”
Eric - “I didn’t even remember – that’s the hellish thing. Oh – my God!”
Eric - “I wasn’t in ____ with her or anything – but I _____ her – she was _____ and a good _____.”
Eric - “I wasn’t in love with her or anything – but I liked her – she was pretty and a good sport.”
Gerald - “I noticed a ____ who looked quite ________. She was very ______.”
Gerald - “I noticed a girl who looked quite different. She was very pretty.”
Gerald - “Gerald Croft is an _________ chap about thirty, rather too _____ to be a _____ but very much the easy ____-____ young man-about-town.”
Gerald - “Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town.”
Gerald - “Sorry – I – well, I’ve _______ realized – taken it in _______ – that she’s ____“
Gerald - “Sorry – I – well, I’ve suddenly realized – taken it in properly – that she’s dead“
Eva Smith / Daisy Renton - “…she’d _________ a lot of strong __________. Burnt her ______ out, of course”
Eva Smith / Daisy Renton - “…she’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course”
Eva Smith / Daisy Renton - “She was ____ and pretty and warm-______- and intensely ________.”
Eva Smith / Daisy Renton - “She was young and pretty and warm-hearted- and intensely grateful.”
Eva Smith / Daisy Renton - “A ____ ______ too.”
Eva Smith / Daisy Renton - “A good worker too.”
