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1
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beginning a sentence/clause by repeating the last word from the previous sentence/clause

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Anadiplosis

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short sighted

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myopic

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Mr Birling being made to look stupid through dramatic irony

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unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable!

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dramatic irony for Mr Birling as war was “inevitable”

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fiddlesticks!

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Mr Birling trying to seem upper class referring to Geralds fathers alcohol taste

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same port your father gets

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Gerald excusing the time he was away from Shiela the previous summer

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awfully busy at work

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Mrs Birling in disgust at the language sheila is using

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the things you girls pick up these days

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Mr Birling bringing everything back to his ideal capitalistic views

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for lower costs and higher prices

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Mrs Birling embracing typical gender roles and separating the men to deal with traditionally masculine affairs

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leave you men

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Mr Birling believes that he is deep in the world of business and uunderstands taking risks

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hard headed businessman

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casual racism from Mr Birling about the Balkans

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half-civilised folk in the balkans

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repetition of this from Mr Birling emphasises his core capitalistic views (also repeated a third time)

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hard-headed practical man of business

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13
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more casual racism about russias progress

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except Russia…behindhand naturally

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14
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Birling using any possible thing to bring it back to his own achievement

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might have done better for yourself socially…knighthood

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15
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foreshadowing of all the problems to come with the family

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nice, well-behaved family

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16
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the fact that they both laugh is foreshadowing of what is to come from the inspector

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keep out of trouble for the next few months—they both laugh

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17
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Birling remarking how clothes are a status symbol for women

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clothes mean something quite different to a woman

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18
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foreshadowing as Birling later discovers what Gerald has been up to

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you dont know what some of these boys get up to nowdays

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19
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very capitalist and anti-socialist, no selflessness, self centred from Birling

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a man has to make his own way

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20
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Birling is very dismissive of the working and lower class people

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some of these cranks talk

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21
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Birling doesnt like the idea of social responsibility

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you’d think everybody has to look after everbody else

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22
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Birling talking in a monosyllabic form reflecting his simple view on lower class people

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Don’t know him. Does he want to see me?

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23
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Gerald jokingly remarking about why the Inspector called, eventually becomes true

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Unless Eric’s been up to something…would be awkward wouldn’t it

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the Inspecctor metaphorically fills the room with his presence

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not a big man…impression of massiveness

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25
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inspector vividly describes Eva’s death

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she was in great agony

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26
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Birling tries to dismiss thier party as modest

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we’ve been modestly celebrating

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27
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Birling thinks nothing is out of the ordinary

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nothing mysterious or scandalous

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28
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Mr Birling refuses to accept responsibility for Evas death after Inspector first mentions

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i cant accept any responsibilty

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29
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Inspector’s about asking for permission

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better to ask for the earth than to take it

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30
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Eric disagreeing with his father about wage striking

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shouldn’t they try for higher wages

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31
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hinting that sheila had a hand in her death by describing Eva’s beauty

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she had been pretty, very pretty

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32
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stage directions hinting all the people have a hand in it

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Gerald, then at Eric, then at Sheila

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33
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the four of them are clueless about what is about to happen

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bewildered and perturbed glances

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34
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Sheila disagreeing with her father about the identity of his employees

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these girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people!

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35
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the inspector alluding to the fact that Eva was fired not of her own accord

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nothing wrong with…her work

36
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Birling infanticising his daughter

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upsetting the child

37
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ironic as the inspector reveals they are in fact not respectable

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we’re respectable citizens and not criminals

38
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unlike her father, sheila is far more remorseful of her actions compared to her father

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I’ll never, never do it again

39
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Sheila accepts what shes done and says that he might as well fess up

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i thought i didnt half an hour ago

40
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the inspector acknowledging that sheila feels remorse

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she feels responsible

41
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Mrs birling is extremely classist and misogynist about Eva Smith

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girls of that class

42
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Mrs birling infantising Eric and being naive about his drinking habit

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he’s only a boy

43
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even Gerald realises Eric drinks too much

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I have gathered he does drink pretty hard

44
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Sheila is the first to realise that they all resulted in Sheilas death

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probably between us we killed her

45
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Mrs Birling is extremely naive about taboo subjects such as Alderman Meggarty being a womaniser

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we are learning something tonight

46
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Mrs birling shocked that Gerald keeps “Daisy” as his Mistress despite clear sign of such happenings

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What?

47
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Gerald, despite being unfaithful to Sheila, did not rape Eva

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I didn’t ask for anything in return

48
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Sheila is very able to admit that Eva’s loss was partially her fault, she accepts responsibility

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it was I

49
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direct adress to Mr Birling about how he has to be responsible for his actions

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Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilites as well as privileges

50
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Sheila taking further responsibility and disagreeing with her fathers indignant tone

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we’ve no excuse

51
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Mrs Birling is taken aback by Eva’s rudeness, reflects Mrs Birlings upper class status

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gross impertinence

52
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Mrs Birling saying that Eva Smith’s suicide was all her fault

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she only had herself to blame

53
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Mrs Birling repetitively refers to “I” and says shes not ashamed

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I did nothing I’m ashamed of

54
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Mrs Birling sets up Eric to be grilled for what hes done

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go and look for the father of the child, it’s his responsibility

55
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Sheila is appalled at the actions of her mother

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with feeling…cruel and vile

56
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Mrs Birling explicitly takes no responsibility for her actions

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I accept no blame for it at all

57
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Mrs Birling repeats how she takes no responsibility and inadvertedly blames Eric

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I blame the…father of the child

58
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Inspector lists all the things that he is going to do to Eric before Mrs Birling realises

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make an example of the young man eh?

59
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words used in stage directions to show how distresses Mr and Mrs Birling are when they realise Eric is involved

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thunderstruck, agitated

60
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Erics description when he enters after Mr and Mrs Birling realise. Contrasts his entrance description

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extremely pale and distressed

61
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Eric immediately having a go at his mother as soon as he starts to be blamed

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bitterly… you havent made this any easier for me

62
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Mrs Birling is completetly naive to erics drinking habits after she finds out

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you dont get drunk

63
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Eric himself horrifies his family by downing whisky

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the drink shows his familiarity with heavy drinking

64
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Eric blames his actions on his drunkeness and doesnt accept full responsibility

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I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty

65
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Eric hates his actions that her did that night when he raped Eva but doesnt remember

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I didnt even remember, thats the hellish thing

66
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Mrs Birling is dumbfounded at finding out that Eric raped Eva

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how could you?

67
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Eric panicked knowing that Eva was pregnant

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I was in a hell of a state

68
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Eric doesnt accept that he stole the £50, hints at his lack of responsibility

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not really

69
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Eric is nearly at breaking point hence all the pauses and he is angry at his mother for all her misdeeds

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your own grandchild-you killed them both

70
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the inspector hints that they are all equally culpable

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each of you helped to kill her

71
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could be taken that Birling is giving a bribe or that he wishes to have Eva not dead to not harm his reputation

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I’d give thousands, yes thousands

72
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repetition of Millions shows how large social responsibilty is

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there are millions and millions and millions

73
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inspector is showing how Eva’s death represents all people and people have a duty to fulfill their social responsibility

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Eva Smiths and John Smiths

74
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biblical reference of how everyone should help one another

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we are members of one body

75
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syndetic list used to represent hell if people dont accept their resposibility

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they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish

76
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Eric is indignant and is angry that Mrs Birling is quick to fully blame Eric

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Ill bet i am

77
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Eric points the finger of blame at both his parents as well

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both of you

78
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Sheila saying that despite the Inscpector potentially being a fraud, he still interrogated them and the admitted their acts

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he inspected us all right

79
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Sheila is the first to question if he was a real inspector

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was he really a police inspector

80
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Birling is only concerned with the effect of Eva on his public image, not his actual moral conscience

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makes all the difference

81
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Birling now finds out it was a scam and celebrates

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we’ve been had

82
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despite the fraud, Eric acknowledges his actions and feels bad

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the fact remains that i did what i did

83
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Eric using irony to highlight that Birling is in the wrong

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nice cosy talk

84
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Birling is quick to accept theories that he isn’t culpable

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eagerly

85
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Birling toasts the same way her started the play, it is cyclical

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has a drink now, and raises his glass

86
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Gerald, Mr and Mrs Birling are all ecstatic when they find that Eva’s death was a lie

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smiling

87
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cyclical as the inspector first says that Eva has died and the play ends with a call saying the same thing

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a girl has just died

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