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1
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Dramatic irony showing Mr Birling’s inadequacy (Titanic).

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Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable

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2
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Shows Mr Birling’s arrogance and helps introduce the idea that capitalism is majorly flawed (bees).

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Like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense

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3
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Dramatic irony showing Mr Birling’s inadequacy (war).

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Nobody wants war

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4
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Sets the mood for the Inspector’s interrogation (lights).

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Pink and intimate… brighter and harder

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The Inspector interrupting Mr Birling’s heavily capitalist speech.

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The sharp ring of a door bell

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Mr Birling’s description.

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A heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties, rather provincial in his speech

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Mrs Birling’s description.

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A rather cold woman

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Sheila’s description.

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A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited

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Eric’s description.

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Half shy, half assertive

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10
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Gerald’s description.

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Well-bred young man-about-town

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Mr Birling’s description of himself that the audience knows is overstated.

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A hard-headed, practical man of business

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12
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Mr Birling criticising the younger generation and the Inspector’s message.

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The famous younger generation who know it all

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13
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Mr Birling demonstrating capitalism’s problems (lower…).

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Lower costs and higher prices

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14
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Mr Birling dismissing the Inspector’s message by saying he guessed everything.

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A few smart guesses/hoaxed

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Demonstrating how low women are in society by saying their clothes are a major part of who they are.

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A token of their self-respect

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16
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Mr Birling saying socialists are cranks.

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Socialist or some sort of crank

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17
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A word used by Gerald (multiple times), Eric, Sheila and the Inspector to describe Eva Smith.

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Pretty

18
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Words used by Gerald to describe and objectify Eva Smith.

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‘Pretty’, ‘young’, ‘fresh’, ‘charming’

19
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Mrs Birling dismissing the lower classes as unimportant.

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Girls of that class

20
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Mrs Birling shouldering the blame to anybody but her.

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I accept no blame for it at all

21
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Mrs Birling showing gender inequality by saying only men have important work.

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Men with important work to do

22
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Mrs Birling assuming control over Sheila and leaving the men to discuss business.

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Sheila and I had better go into the drawing-room and leave you men

23
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Sheila going against the status quo to show sympathy for the proletariats.

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But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people

24
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Sheila trying to make her parents understand the Inspector’s message.

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The point is, you don’t seem to have learnt anything

25
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Sheila showing her immaturity early in the play in her way of addressing her parents.

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Mummy/Daddy

26
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Sheila telling Gerald that the Inspectors knows everything, and not to hide anything.

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Why - you fool - he knows

27
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Sheila being submissive to Gerald offering her the ring.

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Is it the one you wanted me to have

28
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Eric going against the capitalist philosophy: ‘lower costs and higher prices’.

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Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages

29
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Eric telling Mr Birling how judgemental he is about anything he doesn’t like.

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You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble

30
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Eric telling the audience Priestley’s socialist message, repeated twice.

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We all helped to kill her

31
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Gerald trying to prove that the Inspector was a hoax.

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But how do you know it’s the same girl

32
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The Inspector using graphic imagery to describe Eva Smith’s death.

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Burnt her inside out

33
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The Inspector telling Mr Birling how he is worse than Eva was when she asked for higher wages.

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It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it

34
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The Inspector telling the Birlings that if they don’t stop their capitalist ways, they will go to hell.

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If men will not learn that lesson then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish

35
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The Inspector telling the Birlings how there are many people living like how he described Eva’s life.

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There are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths

36
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The Inspector’s description.

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An impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness

37
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Gerald assuming his opinion is always right.

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Nothing less than a cry for help

38
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Mrs Birling admonishing Mr Birling for not sticking to the status quo.

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Arthur, you’re not supposed to say such things

39
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Mr Birling saying how Sheila is lucky being engaged to Gerald.

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Sheila’s a lucky girl

40
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Mr Birling advocating capitalism through suggesting a dog-eat-dog world.

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A man has to make his own way

41
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Mr Birling telling Sheila to leave in a carefree way.

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Run along

42
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Sheila telling her father to not interfere.

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Don’t interfere please, Father