inspector calls Flashcards

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Birling:

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‘I speak as a hard-headed practical man of business’

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birling

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‘Fiddlesticks! – the Germans don’t want war.’

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birling

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‘She had a lot to say

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far too much’

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‘- and unsinkable

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absolutely unsinkable’

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‘I protest against the way in which my daughter

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a young unmarried girl

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‘(Triumphantly) There you are! Proof positive. The whole story’s just a lot of moonshine’

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birling

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Mrs Birling:

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9
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‘A girl of that class.’

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mrs b

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‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money.’

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mrs b

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11
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‘First

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she called herself Mrs Birling-‘

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12
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‘Unlike the other three

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I did nothing I’m ashamed of that won’t bear investigation.’

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‘Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility.’

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mrs b

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‘(Very distressed now) No – Eric – please – I didn’t know – I didn’t understand-’

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mrs b

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‘They’re over tired. In the morning they’ll be as amused as we are.’

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mrs b

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16
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Sheila:

17
Q

‘(Taking out the ring) Oh – it’s wonderful! Look – Mummy..’

18
Q

‘(miserably) So I’m really responsible?’

19
Q

‘They’re not cheap labour. They’re people’

20
Q

‘(Rather wildly

A

with laugh) No

21
Q

‘..I remember what he said

A

how he looked

22
Q

Gerald

23
Q

‘You seem to be a nice well-behaved family’

24
Q

‘(Hesitatingly) It’s hard to say. I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me.’

25
‘Better than I hoped. She was – very gallant - about it.’
gerald
26
‘There isn’t any such inspector. We’ve been had.’
gerlad
27
‘(Not too rudely) Well
don’t do any. We’ll drink to their health and have done with it.’
28
‘She was pretty and a good sport.’
eric
29
‘-well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty’
eric
30
The Inspector:
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‘We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.’
inspetor
32
‘Blood
fire and anguish’
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‘Burnt her inside out
of course’
35
Stage directions:
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‘The lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inspector arrives
and then it should brighter and harder’
37
Inspector ‘(He moves nearer a light ..she crosses to him. He produces a photograph’.
stage
38
‘Scene and situation are exactly as they were at the end of Act One..’
stage