An Inspector Calls Characters - The Inspector + Women theme

Question 1

Give 6 stage directions that show the inspector’s presence

Answer 1

(the lighting should be pink and intimate until the inspector arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder)
(massiveness, solidarity and purposefulness)
(cutting in)
(cutting through massively)
(massively taking charge)
(imperturbable)

Question 2

Give 3 Quotes that show how the inspector stands up to intimidation

Answer 2

“I don’t play golf”
“No, thank you, Mr Birling. I’m on duty”
“Goole. G-double O - L - E”

Question 3

Give 7 quotes that show how the inspector holds the family accountable

Answer 3

“it’s better to ask for the world than to take it”
“A nice promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess someone’s made of it”
“Sometimes there isn’t as much difference as you think”
“If there’s nothing else we’ll have to share our guilt”
(massively)”Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as priviledges”
“I think you did something terribly wrong - and you’re going to spend the rest of your life regretting it”
“You’re offering money at the wrong time, Mr Birling”

Question 4

Give 3 quotes that show the Inspector upholds justice

Answer 4

“Ove Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us”
“We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other”
“if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish”

Question 5

Give 5 quotes about immoral authority figures

Answer 5

“Old, Joe Meggarty… had wedged her into a corner with that obscene fat carcass of his”
“notorious womanizer”
“Surely you don’t mean Alderman Meggarty?”
“my duty to keep labour costs down”
“when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together - for lower costs and higher prices”

Question 6

Give 6 quotes to show how upper class women are sheltered in the play

Answer 6

“There isn’t the slightest reason why my daughter should be dragged into this unpleasant business”
“Why should you? It’s bound to be unpleasant and disturbing”
“Sheila, take your mother along to the drawing room”
“My daughter, a young unmarried girl, is being dragged into this”
“Your daughter isn’t living on the moon”
“But is see no point mentioning the subject - especially -“ (indicating Sheila)

Question 7

Give 9 quotes that show how upper class men exploit lower class women

Answer 7

“a good worker”
“my duty to keep labour costs down”
“Get into trouble? Go on the streets?”
“And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?”
“Well, we know one young woman who wasn’t, don’t we?”
“I hate those hard-eyed, dough faced women”
“Favourite haunt of women of the town”
“She didn’t want me to go in”
“I was in a state when a chap easily turns nasty”
“she was pretty and a good sport”

Question 8

Give 5 quotes to show how women are silenced in the play

Answer 8

“She’d had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go”
“she’s obviously had about as much as she can stand”
“he means I’m getting hysterical now”
“No it isn’t”
“Don’t contradict me like that”

Question 9

Give 2 quotes that show hope for women having a larger role in society

Answer 9

“I suppose we’re all nice people now”
“It frightens me the way you talk”