The Inspector Flashcards
“We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.”
Public men, Mr. Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.
One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives.”
“If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish.”
-Priestly is threaten the upper class suggesting that if they won’t change their indivialistic attitude they will end up in hell
“It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it
“We often do on the younger ones. They’re more impressionable.”
-From this statemnt Priestley is suggesting that althought the older generation is unable to change there is hope for the younger generation to change making society more egalitarian
