Inspector Calls Quotes P3 Flashcards
“Every man for himself,”
Birling
“Piece of gross impertinence,”
Sybil on Eva saying her name was Birling
“Youngster- silly and wild and drink too much,”
Sybil on Eva’a child’s dad (Eric)
They weren’t “the same people who sat down to dinner,”
Sheila
“Drunken old idler,”
Sybil on Eva’s babies father (Eric)
Everyone is “intertwined,” “members of one body,” everyone shares “their hopes and fears, their suffering and change of happiness,”
Inspector
They’ll be forced to understand their mistakes through “fire blood and anguish,”
Inspector (foresees their suffering)
“Absolutely ashamed,” to Eric drink
Sybil
It makes “all the difference,” that the inspector wasn’t a real inspector
Sybil and birling
Proud she “didn’t give in to him,”
Sybil
“And then you decided to keeper her- as your mistress?”
Inspector but it’s not a really a question but a way to make Gerald confess
“One line of enquiry at a time,”
Inspector
“Pretty,” “lively girl,”
Inspector use of words to make the audience feel sympathy for her
She’s lying “with a burnt out inside Ona slab,”
Inspector to increase sympathy through a harsh tone
“You know very well there was,Mrs Birling,”
Inspector to get Sybil to admit there was a committee meeting
“Was it or was it not your influence,”
Inspector
“You’re not even sorry now when you know what happened,”
Inspector
“A man has to mind his own business,”
Birling
He’s a “hard headed, practical man of business,”
Birling on himself
When threatened hes terrified and would “give thousands,”
Eric and he uses a bribe
Only supports “deserving cases,”
Mrs Birling on her charity
“I accept no blame for it at all,”
Sybil
(Triumphantly) tells everyone she “Knew it all long,”
Sybil on it being a hoax
“Look mummy isn’t it a beauty,”
Sheila
“Half serious, half playful,”
Sheila jokes with Gerald like this
“Probably between us we killed her,”
Sheila
“You don’t understand anything. You never did,”
Eric to his parents
