An Inspector Calls

Question 1

until the inspector’s arrival, the lighting should be pink and intimate

with the Inspector’s arrival, lighting goesw ‘brighter and harder’

Answer 1

Pink and intimate
- Shows them in rose tined glasses and unaware of whats to come and the lower class world

Inspector
- seems to shine a flashlight onto them, inspecting/bringing it to light

harder
-honesty and stuff

Question 2

heavily comfortable, but not cozy and homelike

Answer 2

Shows that they are rich, but family relationships are strained, not a homelike atnmoshere

Question 3

Arthur Birling is a heavy- looking, rather portentious man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincal in his speech

Answer 3

Provincial
- Shows that he is not born of upper-middle class

Is part of the older generation

Portentous
- Tries to prove that he is of higher class than he is

Question 4

a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior

Answer 4

Social superior
- Ironic
- Foreshadows her asshat behaviour

Question 5

are rather pleased with themselves

Answer 5

Shows how the upper class act
How oblivious they are
Constrast heavily to the end of the play
Foreshadows

Question 6

Arthur , you’re not supposed to say such things

Answer 6

Mrs Birling scolds her husband, since she is born into money
Shows that Mr Birling is of lower class, since you were not supposed to praise
them

Question 7

Except for all last summer, when you never came near me

Answer 7

Foreshadowing Gerald’s affair
Sheila has her doubts, but hides them
First crack in their perfect relationship

Question 8

When you’re maried you’ll realize that men with important work to do sometimes spend all their time and energy on their buisness

Question 9

I don’t know - really. Suddenly I felt I just had to laugh

Answer 9

Highlights Eric’s immaturness and how he does not belong in the upper class social circle

Question 10

What an expression Sheila! Really the things you girls pick up these days!

Answer 10

Girls - thinks the younger generation is immature and childish

Thinks younger generation is bad
-does not want change

Question 11

You’re just the kind on son-in-law I always wanted

Answer 11

Shows how disant Eric is from his own family

How Mr Birling likes the richer and more famous, wanting to please them

Question 12

Perhaps we may look fowar to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices.

Answer 12

Respectful tone

Very business-like

Will work together with the higher class

Question 13

(rather noisily) All the best! She’s got a nasty temper sometimes – but she’s not bad really. Good old
Sheila!

Answer 13

Very immature and drunk

Trying to embarass Sheila

Question 14

Oh – Gerald – you’ve got it – is it the one you wanted me to have?

Answer 14

You wanted - shows how Shelia had no choice or opinion
Women were often used as assecories

Question 15

Look – mummy – isn’t it a beauty?

Answer 15

Sounds childish and seeks her mothers approval,

Question 16

I think it’s perfect. Now I really feel engaged.

Answer 16

Shelia is rather materialistic and childish, only feeling that she is engaged after getting a ring

Question 17

I’ll never let it go out of my sight for an instant.

Answer 17

Very materialistic, trying to please Gerald

Question 18

You’ve a lot to learn yet. And I’m taking as a hard headed, practical man of
business.

Answer 18

Confident and aggorant, very full og himself

Rule of 3

Question 19

unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.

Answer 19

repetition

abseloutrlly - shoes confidence

shows hes stupid

dramatic irony

Question 20

there’s a fair chance that I might find my way into the
next honours list. Just a knighthood, of course.

Question 21

as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense

Question 22

I thought you must be. I was an alderman for years – and lord mayor two years ago –

Question 23

(involuntarily) My god!

Question 24

Yes, yes. Horrid business.

Answer 24

very dismissive,
does not actually care

Question 25

obviously it has nothing whatever to do with the wretched girl's suicide.

Question 26

A chain of events.

Question 27

Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?

Question 28

Pretty?

Answer 28

Judjing, as if only being pretty matters

Question 29

But these girls aren't cheap labour – they're people.

Answer 29

Starts displayign scoialist ideals and views Says as a statement Girls - childish, kids

Question 30

We were having a nice family celebration tonight. And a nasty mess you've made of it now, haven't you?

Question 31

:After all, y'know, we're respectable citizens and not criminals. Inspector: Sometimes there isn't much difference as you think. Often , if it was left to me, I wouldn't know where to draw the line.

Question 32

She's had a long exciting and tiring day

Question 33

and you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?

Question 34

we often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable.

Question 35

Girls of that class--

Answer 35

Girls - views lower class women as helpless and immature that class - condasending, looking down trying to generalise them, removing their induviduality

Question 36

you mustn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl.

Answer 36

Metaphor, Shelia trying to remove class

Question 37

I don't know. Perhaps it's because impertinent is such a silly word.

Answer 37

Starts rebelling againt her mmother and upper class society

Question 38

it would be much better if sheila didn't listen to this story at all

Question 39

You were the wonderful fairy prince. You must have adored it, gerald.

Answer 39

Sarcastic How upper class has power and money Prince - Gerald has a high status

Question 40

Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.

Question 41

a prominent member – of the Brumley Women's Charity Organization, aren't you?

Question 42

mother, I think it was cruel and vile

Answer 42

Fully opposes her mother , has become independent

Question 43

I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty – and I threatened to make a row

Question 44

Because you're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble – that's why.

Question 45

as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person.

Question 46

( unhappily) Look, Inspector – I'd give thousands – yes, thousands

Question 47

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they well be taught it in fire and bloody and anguish.

Answer 47

Repetition, collective pronouns, religious undertones. Violent imagery; biblical allusions

Question 48

You! You don't seem to care about anything. But I care. I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List-

Answer 48

blames Erci for everythign and puts responsiblity while avoiding himself care more about status than responsibilty

Question 49

This makes a difference, y'know. In fact, it makes all the difference.

Answer 49

the most important factor is that Inspector Goole isn't actually a proper police inspector the story of Eva Smith is now unlikely to end in a scandal for him. He doesn’t care about his actions in the girl’s life Mr Birling is prepared to forget the whole story and continue with life as before.

Question 50

I was the only one of you who didn't give in to him.

Answer 50

Mrs birling is proud of not feelign guilt No responsibility

Question 51

I want to get out of this. It frightens me the way you talk.

Answer 51

short arupt younger vs older rebelling agains tparents now socalist mouthpiece

Question 52

Everything's all right now, Sheila. (Holds up the ring.) What about this ring?

Answer 52

Gerald want things to return the previously because inspector isn’t real

Question 53

Now look at the pair of them – the famous younger generation who know it all.

Answer 53

younger vs older generation foreshadwoign young generation brings hope