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1
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‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour -they’re people’

A

Sheila to Mr Birling

2
Q

‘As if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive’

A

Mr Birling

3
Q

‘The Titanic…unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’

A

Mr Birling

4
Q

‘Hard-headed practical man of business’

A

Mr Birling

5
Q

‘Is it the one you wanted me to have?’

A

(Sheila to Gerald)

6
Q

‘He creates at once an impression of massiveness. solidity and purposefulness’

A

The Inspector (stage directions)

7
Q

‘alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate’

A

Inspector about Eva

8
Q

‘Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges’

A

Inspector to Mr Birling

9
Q

‘I was in that state when chap easily turns nasty’

A

Eric

10
Q

‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’

A

Mrs Birling about Eva

11
Q

‘I liked her - she was pretty and a good sport’

A

(Eric about Eva)

12
Q

‘No he’s giving us the rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves’

A

Sheila about the Inspector

13
Q

‘used her … as if she were an animal, a thing, not a person’

A

Eric

14
Q

‘They will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish’

A

The Inspector

15
Q

‘There are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths…’

A

The Inspector

16
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‘Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility’

A

Mrs Birling