AIC Characters - key traits and quotes
- Created by: Millie Falconer
- Created on: 24-12-18 14:09
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- AIC Characters + Key Traits/Word associations (with quotes)
- Mr Birling
- Ambitious - "there's a very good chance of a knighthood"
- Business-minded - "a hard-headed, practical man of business"
- Selfish - "a man has to make his own way"
- Anxious - "there'll be a public scandal - unless we're lucky"
- Capitalist - "working together - for lower costs and higher prices."
- Possessive - "Is there any reason why my wife should answer questions from you, Inspector?"
- Patronising about women - "Not just something to wear - and not only something to make 'em look prettier."
- Eric
- Irresponsible - "I didn't even remember - that's the hellish thing."
- Unloved - "You don't understand anything. You never did."
- Sensitive - "My God - I'm not likely to forget."
- Alcoholic - "I was in a state when a chap easily turns nasty."
- Lacking confidence - "I don't know - really. Suddenly I felt I just had to laugh."
- Assertive - "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices.
- Mrs Birling
- Traditional - "When you're married you'll realise..."
- Proud - "I was the only one of you who didn't give in to him."
- Prejudiced - "As is a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!"
- Cruel - "I used my influence to have it refused."
- Ignorant -"No, of course not. He's only a boy." And later "(staggered) it isn’t true."
- Snobbish - "What an expression, Sheila! Really, the things you girls pick up these days!"
- Gerald
- Respectable - "the east well-bred young man-about-the-town"
- Upper-class - "landed people and so forth"
- Liar - "I wasn't telling you a complete lie"
- Traditional - "I should say so!" (Gerald agreeing with Mr B)
- Confident - "Sure to be, unless Eric’s been up to something."
- Evasive - "All right. I knew her. Let’s leave it at that."
- Sheila
- Strong-minded - "I don't believe I will. So you be careful."
- Sharp - "he's giving us the rope - so that we'll hang ourselves."
- Selfish - "you used the power you had...to punish the girl."
- Moral - "But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people."
- Assertive - "I tell you - whoever that inspector was, it was anything but a joke."
- Insightful - "That's what I meant when I talked about building up a wall that's sure to be knocked flat. It makes it all harder to bear."
- Inspector
- Moral - "We are members of one body"
- Authoritative - "All in good time"
- Mysterious - "Was it a hoax?"
- Outsider - "The rude way he spoke to Mr Birling and me - it was quite extraordinary!"
- Prophetic - "if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.
- Emotive - "Her position now is that she lies with a burnt out inside on a slab."
- Mr Birling
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