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An Inspector Calls Flashcards

1
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Responsibility - Mr Birling
Man has to …

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Man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own

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Responsibility - Mr Birling
shifting blames

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Well I did what any employer might have done

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Responsibility - Mr Birling
opinion on responsible to each other

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it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?

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Responsibility - Mrs Birling
shifting blames

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I accept no blame at all […] I would blame the young man who was the father of the child

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Responsibility - Gerald

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She didn’t blame me at all. I wish to God she had now

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Responsibility - Eric
guilty

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You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but I can’t

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Responsibility - Inspector

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millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths […] we are members of one body.

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Class - Mr Birling
his status

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I was lord mayor two years ago […] good chance of a knighthood

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Class - Mr Birling
on about lower class

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If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth.

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Class - Mr Birling
simile about socialism

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mixed together like bees in a hive

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Class - Sheila
metaphor

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You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl

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Class - Mrs Birling
prejudice

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As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money

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Class - Inspector
warning

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If men will not learn that lesson, then they well be taught it in fire and blood and anguish

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Gender - Mr Birling
clothes

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clothes mean something quite different to women […] a sort of sign or token of their self-respect.

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Gender - Gerald
own opinion

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I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women.

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Gender - Eric
opinion on Eva

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she was pretty and a good sport.

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Gender - Inspector
question

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You think young woman ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?

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18
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Gender - Mr Birling
reason of sacking Eva

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She’d had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go

19
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Young vs Old - Inspector

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We often do on the young ones - They’re are impressionable

20
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Young vs Old - Mr Birling
own experience in school

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You youngsters - and I’ve learnt in the good hard school experience

21
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Young vs Old - Inspector
about over-protection

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Your daughter isn’t living on the moon

22
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Young vs Old - Mrs Birling
being pissed off

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You’re behaving like a hysterical child tonight

23
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Young vs Old - Eric
argue against his father

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You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble

24
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Young vs Old - Mr Birling
judges the younger ones

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The way you children talk, you might be wanting to help him instead of us

25
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Young vs Old - Ｍr Birling
judges the younger ones as taking it too seriously

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the famous younger generation who know it all And they can’t even take a joke.

26
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Sheila - Starting character and language

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pretty girl in the early twenties
You’re squiffy

27
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Responsibility - Sheila
about working class

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

28
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Resposibility - Sheila
sochastic tone

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I suppose we’re all nice people now

29
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Gerald - starting character

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well-bred, young-man-about-town

30
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Responsibilty - Gerald
make his action sounds better

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I didn’t install her there so that I could make love to her

31
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Gender - Mrs Birling
talk about men

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men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business

32
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Wealth - setting

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fairly large suburban house, belonging to a prosperous manufacturer

33
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Wealth - business engagement

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when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together - for lower costs and higher prices

34
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Wealth - things on their table

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Champagne glasses and cigar box

35
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Wealth - Mr Birling defending Gerald

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I’m not defending him. But you must understand a lot of young men -

36
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Wealth - Eva’s salary

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She wanted twenty-five shillings a week instead of twenty-two and six pence. You made her pay a heavy price for that.

37
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Wealth - Mr Birling try to cover this up

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I’d give thousands - yes, thousands

38
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Inspector - first impression

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creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness

39
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Inspector - It’s better …

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It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it

40
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Inspector - Repeatedly saying her death

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It’s too late. She’s dead. Yes, she’s dead.

41
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Inspector - Mr Birling’s identity

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Public men, Mr Birling have responsibilities as well as priviledges

42
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Inspector - duty

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I’m waiting … to do my duty

43
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Inspector - all of Birlings killed Eva

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But each of you helped to kill her

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