Themes Flashcards
Morality?
Inspector’ you might be said to have been jealous of her’
Sybil ‘ she called herself mrs birling a piece of gross impertinence’
Eric ‘ i wasn’t in love with her or anything’
Survival of the fittest?
Arthur ‘a man has to make his own way’
Inspector ‘ but she died in misery and agony - hating ‘
Inspector ‘ all intertwined with our lives , with what we think and say and do’
Social responsibility?
Arthur ‘like bees in a hive -community and all that nonsense’
Inspector ‘ it would do us all a bit of good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves in the place of these young women’
Inspector ‘ you must have known what she was feeling . And you slammed the door in the face’
Personal responsibility?
Inspector ‘remember’
Sybil ‘ he certainly didn’t make me confess-as you call it’
Eric ‘ its what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters’
Inequality?
Arthur ‘were in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity’
Sheila’these girls aren’t cheap labour - theyre people’
Gerald ‘she was desperately hard up ‘
Young and old?
Arthur ‘ but youngsters just remember what i said’
Sheila ‘ oh - sorry . I didnt know. Mummy sent me in to ask you ‘
Eric ‘and i say the girls dead and we all helped to kill her- and that is what matters
Time?
Inspector ‘chain of events’
Inspector ‘youre going tospend the rest of your life regretting it ‘
Inspector ‘ i havent much time’
Love?
Gerald ‘ she told me she’d been happier that she’d ever been before- but that she knew it couldn’t last’
Eric ‘ i wasnt in love with her or anything ‘
Gerald ‘ everything alright now , sheila . What about this ring ?’
