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Age and Generational Difference
The famous younger generation who know it all.
Age and Generational difference
Are you listening Sheila?
Age and Generational Difference
Just let me finish Eric
Age and generational difference
Please don’t contradict me like that
Age and generational difference
You seem to have made a great impression on this child, Inspector
Class
girls of that class
Class
as if a girl of that sort would refuse money
Class
Get into trouble? Go on the streets?
Class
Because she had been turned out and turned down too many times
Class
These girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people
Class
She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position
Time
a time of steadily increasing prosperity
Time
fire and blood and anguish
Time
a chain of events
Time
A girl has just died – on her way to the infirmary
Love and mariage
Now I feel really engaged
Love and mariage
And I drink to you – and hope that I can make you as happy as you deserve to be
Love and mariage
Men with important work to do spend nearly all their time and energy on their business
Love and mariage
she was pretty and a good sport
political ideologies
it’s my duty to keep labour costs down
Political ideologies
their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering, and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, with what we think and say and do
political ideologies
She needed not only money, but advice, sympathy, friendliness
political ideologies
public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges
Political Ideologies
I had done no more than my duty
Political ideologies
the fact remains that I did what I did. And mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her
Political ideologies
I behaved badly… I know I did. i’m ashamed of it
Political ideologies
This girl killed herself - and died a horrible death. But each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it
