Quotes Flashcards
Responsibility
Social class
Mr birling
All mixed
as if we were all mixed up together like… - community and all that …’
Social class
Generation
Mr birling
If you don’t
‘If you don’t come down sharply on some of these
people, they’d soon be asking for the earth.’
Mr birling
Social class
Generations
There will be a
there’ll be a …– unless we’re lucky – and who here will suffer from that more than I will?
Social class Mrs birling
As if a girl of … sort would ever refuse … !’
Responsibility
Mrs birling
Unlike the … three, I did nothing I’m ashamed of […] you have no … to make me change my mind.’
Responsibility
Sheila
‘I felt … about it at the time and now I feel a lot worse. Did it make much difference to her?’
Generations
Sheila
You … to learn something. And now you’ve … . You’re ready to go on in the same old way.
Social class
Generations
Eric
Why shouldn’t they try for higher … ? We try for the best possible … ’
Eric
Responsibility
Generations
Birling is concerned about a ‘public scandal’
Eric: (shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we … helped to kill her – and … what matters –
Gerald
Generations
Gender
Everything’s … now Sheila. [Holds up the ring]
Gender
Social class
Gerald
She was … and pretty and warm-hearted – and … grateful. I became at once the … in her life.
Inspector
Responsibility
We don’t live alone. We are … body. We are responsible for each other. […] if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in … .
Social class Inspector
Birling: Perhaps I ought to warn you that he’s an … of mine, and that I see him fairly frequently. We play golf together sometimes up at the West Brumley.
Inspector: (…) I don’t play golf.
About Eva
Social class
Inspector: She was here alone, friendless, almost penniless,… . She needed not only money, but… , sympathy,… .
About Eva
Social class
Inspector says that Eric ‘used her as if she was an … , a thing, not a … ’.
