quotes Flashcards
(8 cards)
sheila
‘Oh it’s wonderful! Look mummy - isn’t it a beauty?’
‘Now I really feel engaged’
‘if she’d have been some miserable plain little creature, I don’t suppose I’d have done it
’‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people’
‘He’s giving us the rope so that we’ll hang ourselves’
‘fire blood and anguish’
mrs birling
‘Arthur you’re not supposed to say such things’
‘surely you don’t mean alderman meggarty’
‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’
‘She only had herself to blame’
‘I accept no blame for it at all’
‘Go and look for the father of the child. Its his responsibility’
gerald
‘I think Miss Birling ought to be excused’
‘Eveythings all right now, Sheila
‘I want you to know that I didn’t install her there so that I could make love to her’
‘I didn’t ask for anything in return’
‘I became the most important person in her life’
‘She lived very economically on what I allowed her’
Eric
‘she was a good sport’
I couldn’t remember her name’ ‘said I didn’t love her’
‘Youre not the kind of father a chap could go to when hes in trouble’
‘The moneys not the important thing’
‘Youre beggining to pretend that nothings really happened.’
‘And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her - and that’s what matters’
mr birling
‘unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
‘the famous younger generation who know it all’
‘as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense”
‘if we were all responsible for everything… it would be very awkawrd
“obviously it has nothing whatever to do with the wretched girl’s suicide. Eh, Inspector?”
‘a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own’
inspector
‘No, wait a minute Mr birling’
‘I don’t play golf’
‘Public men, mr birling, have responsibilities as well as priveleges’
‘its better to ask for the earth than to take it’
‘We are all members of one body. We are responsible for each other’
‘each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it.’
context
money doesn’t equate to happiness
belief that lower class women are inferior and solely exist for the pleasure of men
financial assistance alone is not a substitute for real change and equality
play is set in 1912, but was written in 1945, audience knows far more than characters
gerald, mrs birling part of aristocracy
as a socialist preiestly wanted to remind his audience about how bad things were in 1912 as a way to push for more change
encourages his audience to shift towards more socialist ideas
intro
An inspector calls is a morality play written by the famous playwright, novelist and social commentator J.B Priestley in 1945. The play is set in 1912 when England was ruled by the wealthier classes who where keen to maintain their power and saw no need for change.Priestley uses the characters of… to..
