THEME QUOTES Flashcards
Social responsibility give 2 quotes for each character
sheila act 1 - “At least im trying to tell the truth” “(miserably)so im really responsible?”
Mr birling act 1 - “if we were all responsbile for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with , it would be very awkward wouldn’t it” act 3 “theres every excuse for what your mother and i did”
Eric Act 3 - “You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but i can’t. Nor can mother. we did her in all right” “the facts remain that i did what i did”
Mrs Birling Act 2 - “I should think not, Eric. I am absolutely ashamed of you.”
Mrs Birling Act 2 - “so I was perfectly justified in adivising my committee not to allow her claim for assistance” “But I accept no blame for it at all”
Inspector - “We are all members of one body, We are responsible for each other” “You made her pay a heavy price for that. And now she’ll make you pay a heavier price still” Act 3
Age give 8 quotes
Eric - “you’re beginning to pretend now that nothings really happened at all”
Mrs Birling - “so i was perfectly justified in adivising my committee not to allow her claim for assistance” “No of course not. He’s only a boy” “The things you girls pick up these days”
Mr Birling - “why you hysterical young fool - get back - or I’ll -“ “whats the matter with that child?” “You seem to have made a great impression on this child inspector.” “After all I don’t often make speeches at you”
Class give 7 quotes
Mr Birling - “If you don’t come down sharply on these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth”
Gerald - “He’s a notorious womaniser as well as being one of the worst sots and rogues in Brumley”
Mrs Birling - “As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!”
Inspector - “millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths” “intertwined with out lives” “Public men, Mr birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges”
Sheila - “But these girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people”
Gender give 7 quotes
Gerald - “I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women” “And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things”
Mrs Birling - “She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position”
Mr Birling - “After all I don’t often make speeches at you” “She’d had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go”
Eric Birling - “I Hate these fat Old tars round the town” “I wasn’t in love with her or anything, but i liked her - she was pretty and a good sport”
