Social Class (An Inspector Calls)

Question 1

Stage direction showing class difference

Answer 1

A rather cold woman and her husband’s social class superior

Question 2

Mr Birling being hypocritical, thus aiding the socialist agenda

Answer 2

“But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all the nonsense”

Question 3

Birling showing his snobby behaviour

Answer 3

INSPECTOR: I don’t play golf
BIRLING: I don’t suppose you did

Question 4

Sheila showing her open-mindedness about the class divide

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Mrs Birling showing her prejudice against the lower class

Answer 5

“Girls of that class -“

Question 6

Mrs Birling scrutinising Eva, showing her prejudice

Answer 6

“She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position. As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money”

Question 7

Eric scrutinising his father

Answer 7

“You told us that a man has to make his own way, look after himself and mind his own business”