Themes Flashcards
What is An Inspectors Calls main theme about?
Responsibility.
What is Priestly interested in?
Personal responsibility for our own actions.
Our collective responsibility to society.
What prevents people from taking responsibility?
Prejudice.
What quote said by the inspector try’s to make the Birling family receive a bit of responsibility?
“Each of you helped to kill her.”
What quote said by the inspector warns what could happen to the family if they don’t take responsibility?
“And i tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, when they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish”
Name theme number 2?
Class
Who is the only lower class character in the play?
Edna the Maid.
Mr Birling saw Eva Smith as…
Cheap labour.
Name theme number 3?
Sex.
Back in 1968 women were…
Valued by society.
Not been awarded to vote.
What quotes shows Mr Birling being dismissive about the hundreds of women working in his factory?
“We were paying the usual rates and if they didn’t like those rates, they could go and work somewhere else”
Gerald saw Eva as…
“Young and fresh and charming”
