Responsibility Flashcards
I: “E o y h t k h.”
Inspector: “Each of you helped to kill her.”
He wants the Birling’s to accept and share responsibility.
Mr Birling: “M u t l b i a h - c a a t n.”
Mr Birling: “Mixed up like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense.”
Mr Birling uses the imagery of bees in a hive to represent the socialist society later put forward by the Inspector. Again Priestly wants Birling to look a fool to the audience by the end.
I: “T l, t h a f, t s a c o h, a i w o l a w w t a s a s.”
Inspector: “With their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives and what we think and say and do.”
The main message of the play is that we are all responsible for one another and this quote, directed the audience, drives this home.
I: “T a m a m a m o E S a J S l w u.”
Inspector: “There are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths left with us.”
I: “T t w s c w, i m d n l t l, t w b t i i f a b a a.”
Inspector: “The time will soon come when, if men do not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.”
Priestly sends an ironic message about the world wars.
