Lit- Inspector Calls Flashcards
Sheila quotes 👑🎀👗💍
“Pleased with life and rather excited”-Act 1
“Oh look mummy isn’t it a beauty”-Act 1
“I was in a furious temper”-Act 1
“These girls aren’t cheap labour they’re people”-Act 1
“He’s giving us the rope so that we’ll hang ourselves”-Act 2
-“nothing but morbid curiosity”Mrs b “no it isnt” Sheila
“It frightens me… But the point is you don’t seem to have learnt anything- Act 3
“You were the wonderful fairy prince”
Sheila ideas🎀👗💍👑
Start:-naive and lack of maturity shown through her actions -“pleases with life and rather excited”’ “Oh look mummy isn’t it a beauty”and “I was in a furious temper”
Middle-starts to gain humanity and understand the world away from her rose tinted view on life “he’s giving us the rope so that we’ll hang ourselves” and the idea of her returning the engagement ring-“now I feel really engaged” to (she hands him the ring)
End: she is vital in the attempted breakdown of irresponsible conservatives like her parents as she challenges their ‘authority’ and ‘power’
-“it frightens me the way you talk” mirrors inspectors “will be taught in fire and blood and anguish” -“mummy” to “mother” who accuses her of staying simply out of “morbid curiosity” “no it isn’t” directly contradicting her
Eric quotes🥃🤷♂️😘👼
-“half shy half assertive”-Act 1
-“a chap easily turns nasty… threatened to make a row”-Act 3
-“she was a good sport”
-“I don’t even remember. That’s the hellish thing”- Act 3
-(bursting out) what’s the use of taking about behaving sensibly”-Act 3
-“you’re beginning to pretend now that nothings really happened. And I can’t see it like that ”-Act 3
-“your not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble”
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Eric ideas🥃🤷♂️👼😘
Start: awkward and secretive, unsure of himself -introduced with “I don’t know-really. Suddenly I felt I just had to laugh”
“Half assertive, half shy” occurancw of alcohol-escape from reality/confidence boost
Throughout play: Tension with mr birling-“your not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble”
-“why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices”
End: -experience with the Inspector causes him great emotional turmoil “(bursting out) What’s the use of talking about behaving sensibly” and “ your beginning to pretend now that nothings really happened. And I can’t see it like that”
Mr Birling quotes
-“unsinkable absolutely unsinkable”-Act 1
-“community and all that nonsense… mixed up like bees in a hive”-Act 1
-“it’s my duty to keep labour costs down”-Act 1
-“the famous younger generation who know it all. They can’t even take a joke.”-act 3
-“your not the kind of father a chap can turn to when he’s in trouble”
Mr birling ideas
Start: arrogant, foolish man who’s out of touch with society -“unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable” -describes the idea that war is going to break out as “fiddlesticks”-“ there isn’t a chance of war
Antithesis to inspector as a symbol of the capitalist ideology -“community and all that nonsense” vs “we are responsible for one another” and “it’s my duty to keep labour costs down” vs “it’s my duty to ask questions”
“Public men Mr burling have responsibilities as well as privileges”
End: against the younger generation “the famous younger generation, who know it all. They can’t even take a joke” -“your not the kind of father a chap can go to if he’s in trouble”
Inspector Goole quotes🔍🕵️🔥🩸😧
-“the lighting should be pink and intimate then brighter and harder”Act 1
-“ creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness”Act 1
-“it’s my duty to ask questions”
-“we are members of one body. We are responsible for each other”Act 3
-“public men have responsibilities as well as privileges”-Act 2
-“if men will not learn this lesson they’ll be taught it in fire and blood and anguish”Act3
Inspector Goole ideas 🔍🔥👼😧🕵️
Start: character who immediately brings reality and justice to the Birling family as a symbol of all higher class families -“the lighting should be pink and intimate…” -“ creates at once an impression of…”
Antithesis of Mr Birling, socialism vs capitalism -“it’s my duty to keep labour costs down” vs “it’s my duty to ask questions” and “community and all the nonsense” vs “we are members of one body. We are responsible for each other”
End: aims to have taught a lesson and prophecies the consequences of the higher classes selfishness-“(massively) public men have responsibilities as well as privileges” Act 2 and -“if men will not learn that lesson…” “there are millions and millions and millions of Eva smiths and John smiths still with us”
Mrs Birling quotes
-“a rather cold woman and her husbands social superior” Act 1
-“Girls of that class” Act 1
-“you have no power to make me change my mind”Act 2
-“It sounded ridiculous to me…. I was purposely justified” Act 2
~”you slammed the door in her face”
~”you don’t seem to have learnt anything”
Mrs Birling ideas
Start : a cruel, insensitive woman with a lack of remorse for Eva’s situation-“a rather cold woman and her husbands social superior”Act 1 and “ simply absurd for a girl in her position” and “you slammed the door in her face”
Middle: classist, narrow minded -“girls of that class” -“I was purposely justified” -“ you don’t seem to have learnt anthing”
End: linking to middle we see a woman who is evasive and snobbish when being interrogated -“what business is it of yours?” -“you have no power to make me change my mind” “it sounded ridiculous to me”
Eva Smith quotes
-“she had too much to say so she had to go” Mr Birling Act 1
-“counting their pennies in their dingy back bedrooms”Inspector Act 1
-“as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money” and “girls of that class” Mrs Birling
-“she was pretty and a good sport” Eric and “she was a lively good-looking girl” shows the way women were objectified
-“one Eva smith has gone…
Eva smith ideas
-immediately marginalised and defined by her class -“girls of that class” and “as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money”
-oppressed by sexism of her society and only seen as a pretty face -“ she had far too much to say so she had to go” -“she was a lively, good looking girl, country bred”-almost animal like -“she was pretty and a good sport
symbol of all the working class and a way for Priestley to comment on the injustice that was the 1912 society -“one Eva smith has gone…” -smith common surname
Gerald quotes
-“well bred young man about town” Act 1
-“I installed her”Act 2
-misses big speech
-calls infirmary to confirm there is no Eva
-“everything’s alright now Sheila. What about this ring?”- act 3
“You were the wonderful fairy prince
