Temp AIC for Essay Flashcards
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Money - Birling
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- ‘son-in-law I always wanted’ - for the financial opportunities
- ‘lower costs and higher prices’
- ‘duty to keep labour costs down’
- ‘better to ask for the earth than to take it’
- ‘I’d give thousands - yes thousands’
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2
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Money - Eric + Sheila
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- Eric ‘why shouldn’t they try ..?’
- Eric ‘the [stolen] money’s not the important thing’
- Sheila ‘these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people’
- Sheila ‘I couldn’t be sorry for her’ - ‘jealous’y
- Sheila ‘as a daughter of a good customer […] used the power you had’
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3
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Money - Eva’s battle
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- ‘added about twelve percent to our labour costs’
- ‘counting their pennies in their dingy little backrooms’
- ‘last real steady job she had’
- ‘felt there’d never be anything as good again for her’
- ‘girl of that sort […] refuse money’
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4
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Class - Mr and Mrs Birling
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- Mr ‘soon be asking for the earth’
- Mr ‘ought to warn you that he’s an old friend of mine’
- ‘notorious womanizer’ (Gerald on Meggarty) - surprised by his sins
- Mrs ‘a girl of that sort … refuse money’
- ‘decanter of port, cigar box and cigarettes’ - opening s.d. on set
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5
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Class - Gerald contrasting Sheila
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- Gerald ‘respectable citizens and not criminals’
- Gerald ‘I don’t come into this suicide business’
- Sheila ‘so I’m really responsible?’
- Sheila ‘I’m desperately sorry’
- Sheila ‘as a daughter of […] a man well known in town […] used the power you had’
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6
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Class - Inspector defiance
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- ‘pink and intimate’ - ‘brighter and harder’ - opening s.d.
- ‘sharp ring of a front door bell’
- ‘(dryly) I don’t play golf’
- ‘members of one body’
- ‘fire and blood and anguish’
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7
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Responsibility - Birling
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- ‘I refused, of course’
- ‘they’d soon be asking for the earth’
- ‘there’ll be a public scandal’
- ‘makes all the difference’ - said twice
- ‘jovially’
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8
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Responsibility - Sheila
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- ‘so I’m really responsible?’
- ‘I was absolutely furious. I was very rude’
- ‘I couldn’t be sorry for her’ - ‘jealous’y
- ‘that’s what’s important - and not whether a man is a police inspector or not’
- ‘I suppose we’re all nice people now’
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9
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Responsibility - Inspector
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- ‘better to ask for the earth than to take it’
- ‘punish the girl just because she made you feel like that’
- ‘you’re not even sorry now’ - to Mrs Birling
- ‘rather savagely, to Birling’ - last ditch at B for responsibility
- ‘we are responsible for each other’
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