Key Quotes Flashcards
(28 cards)
A man has to __ his own way-has to look after ___
Make, himself
The Germans don’t want_____, nobody wants way except some folk in the _____
War, balkans
What did Mr Birling use immense amounts of in his big speech?
Dramatic irony
What is the author and made Mr Birling?
He is a socialist and made Birling a capitalist.
What did the author do to make capitalists look bad?
Made Birling naive and egotistical to make them look negative.
Birling ___ to listen
Stops
New York in ___ days-and every luxury-and unsinkable ,_____ unsinkable
Five, absolutely
In ___, you may be giving a little party like this
1940
Why is Birling wrong when he says they are marrying at a good time?
It’s just before ww1 starts.
Except of course in ____, which will always be ______ naturally.
Russia, behind hand
This quote is used when Mrs Birling enters when Gerald reveals his involvement with Daisy.
“No mother-please!”
Mrs Birling tells her to go to bed and forget about it. The quote Sheila uses is
“Mother I couldn’t possibly go. Nothing could be worse for me.
Sheila tries to stop her mother from disrespecting the lower class. Shows socialist and capitalist views.
For your own sake as well as ours, you mustn’t.
Sheila shows some disrespect to her brother that shocks Mrs
Birling when she’s talking young men drinking to much.
And Eric’s one of them.
The inspector reminds the Birlings that they cannot protect Sheila from reality.
Your daughter isn’t living on the moon she’s here in Brumley too.
Mrs Birling won’t even refer to her name as she is of a lower class.
Girl of that class.
Eric can’t have simple connections with his own father.
You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble.
The inspector sums up the family as a whole and what their intentions should be.
We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.
Sheila wonders why the working class does have to work so much.
But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people.
Gerald mirrors mr Bs thought on the girls at the factory.
They’d all be broke if I know them.
Shows Gerald took advantage of Eva.
I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me.
Priestly gave her the name Eva because
Eva links to eve from Adam and Eve who was very naive and was evil as she did something she wasn’t meant to do.
Priestly gave Eva the surname smith because
Smith is a very common surname and he couldn’t of made her too special.
My Birling shows the love for himself and business with
I speak as a hard headed business man.
