New Inspector Cal Flashcards
“ a man has to mind his own business and look after himself’
Mr birling
Selfish
“We are members of one body, we are responsible for each other”
Inspector
Pronoun ‘we’ encourages the audience to sympathise with him
“If man will not learn that lesson then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish”
Inspector
Hints at ww2 shows hes magical
List of three emphasises the magical side
Fire conotates hell
Blood conatates death
Anguish conotates sufering
Last thing said to audience - shocks them.
“Is it the one you want me to have… look mommy isn’t it beautiful.”
Sheila
She cant make her own disisions
Shes childish
Materialistic
“You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here”
Sheila
Metaphor shows us she’s changed
“Its you two who are being childish”
Sheila
Adjective childish shows shes grown up
“I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty”
Eric
Chap shows he thinks its normal
Nasty conotates violence
“I think miss birling aught to be excused… shes had a long and exiting day”
Gerald
Patronising
Long and exiting- treated like a child.
“It may have all been nonsense”
Gerald
Comes at the end of the play shows he has not changed
“You have no power to make me change my mind”
Mrs birling
Ironic
She thinks power is down to privilege
“I accept no blame for it at all”
Mrs birling
Audience doesn’t like her
“Burnt her inside out”
Inspector
Repeated
Sympathy for eva
Hints at not being an inspector
“Just used her for fun and as a stupid drunken evening as if she was an animal, a thing not a person
Eva
List of three
“She was a good worker to”
Eva
Sympathy
“There are millions and millions and millions of Eva smiths”
