Quotations - not really Flashcards
Quotes in Act 1 - Opening stage directions
Arthur Birling is a “heavy-looking, rather portentous man…with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech.
Sybil Birling is “a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.
Sheila Birling is a “pretty girl in her early twenties, very, pleased with life and rather excited.
Gerald Croft is a “well-bred young man-about-town.
Eric Birling is “half shy, half
assertive.
Quotes from act 1 - celebrating the engagement
Sheila: “Oh - it’s wonderful! Look -“
Mummy - isn’t it a beautv?”
Mr B: “we’re in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity.
Eric: “What about war?”
Mr B: “nobody wants war.”
Mr B: “as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense.”
Quotes from Act 1 - Goole questions Me Birling
Insp: “burnt her inside out.”
Mr B: “If we were all responsible for everything that happened to evervbody we’d had anything to do with, it would be awkward.’
Mr B: “If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth.”
Insp: “It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it.’
Eric: “Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?”
Quotes from Act 1 - Goole questions Shiela
Sheila: “But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people!”
Mr B: “We were having a nice little family celebration tonight. And a nasty mess you’ve made of it now.” Inspector: someone’s made a “nasty mess” of Eva’s life.
Sheila: “I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel a lot worse.”
Quotes from Act 2 - Goole questions Gerald
Sheila to Mrs B: “You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl.”
Gerald: “I hate those hard-eyed, dough-faced women.”
Gerald: “I’ve suddenly realised - taken it in properly -that she’s dead-“
Gerald: “She was young and pretty and warm-hearted - and intensely grateful.”
Insp: “Your daughter isn’t living on the moon. She’s here in Brumley too.”
Sheila: “You were the wonderful Fairy Prince.”
Quotes from Act 2 - Goole questions
Inspector: “Public men… have responsibilities as well as privileges.
Mrs B: “Damned impudence!”
Mrs B: Eva “only had herself to blame.”
Mrs B: “I did nothing I’m ashamed of… You have no power to make me change my mind.”
Mrs B: “I blame the young man… He ought to be dealt with very severely.”
Quotes from Act 3 - Goole questions
Eric: “ was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty.
Eric: Eva “was pretty and a good sport.
Mrs B: “You stole money?”
Eric to Mrs B: “You killed them both - damn you, damn you.”
Insp: “used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person.
Quotes from Act 3 - The denouement
Insp: “There are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us.”
Insp: “We are members of one body.”
Insp: “If men will not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.
Sheila: “The point is, you don’t seem to have learnt anything.”
Mr B: “Look at the pair of them - the famous younger generation who know it all.
