Mr Birling

Question 1

Mr Birling (1)

Answer 1

• “I’m talking as a hard-headed practical man of business”
• “The Titanic - she sails next week…and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.”

Question 2

Mr Birling (2)

Answer 2

• “(rather impatiently) Horrid business. But I don’t understand why you should come here.”
• “You’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense.”

Question 3

Mr Birling (3)

Answer 3

• “It’s my duty to keep labour costs down.”
• “Now look at the pair of them-the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke-“

Question 4

Mr Birling (4)

Answer 4

• “There’ll be a public scandal… and who here will suffer for that more than I will?”
• “(jovially) But the whole thing’s different now”