Inspector Quotes Flashcards
A1 - brighter
(lighting)
brighter and harder
A1 - business
BIRLING – ‘A man has to make his own business and look after himself and his own – and – We hear a sharp ring of the front doorbell’
The timing of the doorbell interrupts Birling’s views on capitalism, which shows that the Inspector is going to try to change the views
a1 - massiveness
‘need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness’
Already showing his dominance from the start
a1 - massively
(massively) (weightily)
Lexical field of size - Inspectors Words have deeper meanings
a1 - disconcerting
‘disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before actually speaking’
Unnerves characters
a1 - ask
‘it’s better to ask for the Earth than to take it
Inspector points out that Eva Smith only asked for a rise but Mr B takes all of the money without asking anyone
a1 - repetition
(cutting in) - repetition
Asserting his dominance
a2 - promising
‘A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody’s made of it’
Inspector shows that they had destroyed Eva Smith
a2 - annoyed
‘You were annoyed with yourself and passed the arrogance onto her’
Blunt
a2 - stammer
‘Don’t stammer and yammer at me again man’
Final Speech
‘millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths’
‘their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives’
‘if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish’
The inspector predicts the wars – WW1 and WW2
a3 - BIRLING
BIRLING
‘Probably a Socialist or some sort of crank’
