AIC - All themes

Question 1

All themes 10

All themes

Answer 1

• Capitalism VS Socialism
• Avarice / Materialism
• Exploitation
• Social class + Social Anxiety + Entitlement + Arrogance
• Social responsibilty + Moral Duty
• Secrets in lies / Superficiality
• Guilt VS Shame
• Old (Gen) VS Young (Gen)
• Consequance ( Of Actions)
• Impact of inspector / change + growth

Question 2

All quotes 6

Capitalism VS Socialism

Answer 2

1. We can’t let these Benard Shaws and H.G. Wellses do all the talking.
2. … the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else
   3. “as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive”
3. “forgotten all about these capital versus labour agitations… and these silly little wars”
   5. “…After all it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”
4. the Titanic… unsinkable absolutely unsinkable

Question 3

All Quotes 5

Avarice, wealth and materialism

Answer 3

1. “Now I really feel engaged”
2. “Now Shelia, I’m not defending him. But you must understand that a lot of young men-”
3. “Fifty pounds… where did you get fifty pounds from?”
   4. “You made her pay a heavy price for that. And now she’ll make you pay a heavier price still”
4. “I’d give thousands - yes thousands”
5. “Look, you’d better ask Gerald for that ring”

Question 4

All quotes 5

Exploitation

Answer 4

1.“they were all rather restless”
2. “She’d had a lot to say – far too much – so she had to go”
3. “But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people”
4. Father threw this girl out.. I went and pushed her farther out into the street… Gerald dropped her when it suited him”
5. “you just used her… as if she was an animal, a thing not a person”

Question 5

All quotes 10

Social class, social anxiety, arrogance + entitlement

Answer 5

1. Titanic…
2. Inspector often interupts Birling “(Cutting in massively)”
3. “The wretcehd girl’s suicide
4. “Did you say ‘why?’?”
5. “Girls of that class”
6. “Don’t stammer and yammer at me again man.”
7. “As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money”
8. “One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us”
9. “You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us anad that girl”
10. “You slammed the door in her face”

Question 6

All quotes 11

Social Responsibility + Moral dury

Answer 6

1. “… the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else,”
2. “as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive”
3. “If sometimes we tried to put ourselves in the place of the young woman”
4. “You see, we have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt.
5. “Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.
6. “… Look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility.
7. “I accept no blame for it at all”
8. “Then - you killed her … and the child she’d had have had too - my child - your own grandchild … you killed them both - damn you, damn you.
   9. “But each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it.”
   10. “One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us”
9. “with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness all intertwined with our happiness.
   12. “ We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.”
   13. If men don’t learn that lesson, then they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.
10. “What both your mother and I did - it turned out unfortunately, thats all-
    15. “No police inquirey. No one girl all this happend to. No scandal-“
11. If it didnt end tragically, then that’s lucky for us. But it might have done

Question 7

All quotes 9

Guilt VS Shame

Answer 7

1. “ I’ll never do it again to anybody”
2. “My God!… Sorry - I - well, I’ve just realized… she’s dead’
3. “She was young and pretty and warm hearted - and intensely grateful”
4. “I must say Sybil that when this comes out as inquest, it isn’t going to do us much good”.
5. “…you’re quite wrong to suppose I shall regret this.”
6. “I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can.”
   7. “He cant do anything to your mother and Shelia and me - except perhaps make us look a bit ashamed” - Birling
7. The fact remains that I did what I did. And mother did what she did. - Eric
8. No police inquiry. No one girl that all this happened to. No scandal-“
9. If it didnt end tragically then that’s lucky for us. But it might have done”

Question 8

All quotes 9

Old VS Young

Answer 8

1. All shocking Mr B and Mrs B quotes
2. All Shelia’s its my fault quotes
3. “Yes, yes. Horrid business. But I don’t understand why you should come here,”
4. “The wretched girl’s suicide”
5. “We often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable.
6. “My God!… Sorry - I - well, I’ve just realized… she’s dead’
7. “You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here”
8. “No no please! Not that again. I’ve imagined it enough already.
9. (Excitedly) “By Jingo! A fake!”
10. The fact remains that I did what I did. - Eric
11. “It makes all the differance” Birling “Of coarse” - G

Question 9

All quotes 5

Consequance

Answer 9

1. “Burnt her inside out, of course”
2. “With no work, no money coming in…with no relatives to help her”
3. ‘ because she’d been turned out and turned down too many times. This was the end.
4. “You made her pay a heavy price for that. And now she’ll make you pay a heavier price still”
5. If men don’t learn that lesson, then they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.

Question 10

All quotes 7

Impact of inspector

Answer 10

1. You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner
2. What both your mother and I did - it turned out unfortunately, thats all.
3. By Jingo! A fake!
4. This makes a differance, y’know. In fact this makes all the differance
5. The fact remains I did what I did
6. No police inquiry, No one girl that all this happended to. No scandal-“
7. If it didnt end tragically then that’s lucky for us. But it might have done.
8. Everything’s alright now, Sheila. What about this ring? – Gerald

Question 11

All quotes 7

Secrets in lies

Answer 11

1. “ No, of course not. He’s only a boy.”
2. ” I don’t think we want any further details of this disgusting affair -
3. “We’d have to start all over again, getting to know eachother”
4. “Now Shelia, I’m not defending him. But you must understand that a lot of young men-”
5. “ I don’t believe it. I won’t believe it”
6. “Besides, you’re not the type - you don’t get drunk -“
7. “Gerald, you haven’t to know the rest of our crimes and idiocies” …Gerald: “Thats all right, I dont want to know”