inspector calls quotes Flashcards
responsibility - Mr B
‘i can’t accept any responsibility’
responsibility - Mrs B
‘i did nothing I’m ashamed of’
responsibility - shelia
‘it was all my own fault’
responsibility - inspector
‘we are members of one body’
responsibility - Eric
‘you killed her’
responsibility - gerald
‘i’ve suddenly realised she’s dead’
inspector isn’t real
gender - sheila/ gerald
‘pretty?’
‘is this the one you wanted me to have’
gender - eric/ eva
‘pretty and a good sport’
gender - Mrs B
my husband was ‘lord mayor 2 years ago’
gender - mr B
‘and er… lady croft’
class - Eva
‘ millions of eva and john smiths’
‘girls of that class’
class - mr B
‘same one your father gets’
(climbing social ladder)
‘provincial speech’
class - Mrs B
‘girls of that class’
class - sheila
contrasts eva but learns
‘those girls aren’t cheap labour they’re people’
class - eric
‘why shouldn’t they try for higher wages’
class - gerald
‘i knew it couldn’t last’
(him and eva)
age - young (sheila)
‘it’s you two who are childish not facing facts’
age - old (Mr B)
‘famous younger generation - cant even take a joke’
age - gerald
‘i’ve suddenly realised she’s dead’
inspectors not real
guilt - eric
‘(Involuntary) My God!’
hero complex - gerald
‘i insisted she takes my money’
exploitation- eva
‘young fresh and charming’
‘good sport’
eva - death
‘ in agony hating life’
ignorance - mrs B
‘it isn’t true’
capitalist - MrB
‘lower costs and higher prices’
arrogant Mr B
‘unsinkable absolutely unsinkable’
power - inspector
‘brighter and harder’ lighting
‘impression of solidaritory’
insoector - vehicle for priestley
‘public men have responsibility as well as privileges’
inspector - omniscient
‘he knows’ - shiela
sheila - change
‘pretty?’
‘those girls aren’t cheap labour they’re people’
eric - chnage
gains responsibility
‘we all helped to kill her’
gender no chnage
‘good sport’
guilt
‘you killed her’
gerald + shiela - gender / power
‘is this the one you wanted me to have’
at millard’s for you
gerald + sheila love
‘i drink to you’
gerald + sheila - secrecy and oblivion
‘that’s what you say’
eric + mr b
‘your not the kind of father a chap can go to’
Eva - money
everyone thinks it can solve all her problems
‘i insisted she takes money’
Mrs B - money
‘ i did my duty’
Eva exploited by gerald
‘young fresh and charming’
‘i insisted she takes money’
‘knew it couldn’t last’
