AIC themes Flashcards
Social responsibility
“We are all members of one body… Intertwined”
” as if we were bees in a hive”
“I’m sorry but I can’t accept any responsibility. She had only herself to blame”
“We will be taught in fire and blood and anguish”
“But how do you know it’s the same girl?”
“(Miserably) so I’m really responsible”
Guilt
“(Miserably) so I’m really responsible?”
“If there’s nothing else we’ll share our guilt”
“I’ve done nothing wrong and you know it”
“(Shouting) the girl’s dead and we all helped kill her”
“(Hysterically) he’s giving us the rope so that we can hang ourselves”
” we will be taught in fire and blood and anguish”
Gender
“A girl of her class”
“But she was pretty and looked as though she could take care of herself”
“Make ‘em look prettier-but- well - a sort of token of self respect”
” you have to understand that young men-“
” it was inevitable. She was young, pretty, warmhearted”
Dishonesty
“We must stop these silly pretences”
“I’ve told you I was awfully busy at the works”
” (flaring up) it’s you two being childish, not facing up to the facts”
“(Very deliberately) I think you did something terribly wrong”
” very distressed ) no-Eric-please- I didn’t know- I didn’t understand”
” gross impertinence… Was one of the things that prejudiced do my against her case”
Social class
“If you don’t come down sharply on these people”
“Impertinent”
“A girl of her class”
“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?”
” he at least had some affection for her and made her happy for a time”
