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  • An Inspector Calls
    • Mr Birling
      • Act One
        • [She looks attentive, as they all do]
        • 'The Germans don't want war, nobody wants war'
        • 'It has nothing to do with the wretched girl's suicide'
      • Act Two
      • Act Three
    • Mrs Birling
      • Act One
        • 'Men with important work to do sometimes need to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business'
      • Act Two
        • 'As iif a girl of that sort would ever refuse any money'
        • 'Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility'
        • ''It wasn't  I who turned her out of employment - which probably began it all'
      • Act Three
        • 'Besides, you're not that type - you don't get drunk'
        • 'He certainly didn't make me confess -'
        • 'Take your mother along to the drawing room -' -Mr Birling
    • Sheila
      • Act One
        • 'But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people'
        • 'Why the devil do you want to go upsetting the child like that?' -Mr Birling
        • ''It's the only time I'll ever do anything like that, and I'll never, never do it again to anybody'
      • Act Two
        • 'We've no excuse for putting on airs'
      • Act Three
        • 'The point is, you don't seem to have learnt anything'
        • 'Then don't begin. Nobody wants you to' -Mr Birling
    • Gerald
      • Act One
        • 'Hear, hear! And I think my father would agree to that'
        • '[showing annoyance]Any  particular reason why I shouldn't see this girl's photograph, Inspector?'
      • Act Two
        • 'Sorry - I - well, I've suddenly reason - taken it in properly - that she's dead'
        • I didn't ask for anything in return'
      • Act Three
        • 'There isn't any such inspector. We've been had!'
    • Eric
      • Act One
        • 'Don't be an ***, Eric' -Sheila
        • 'As you were saying, Dad, a man has to look after himself'
        • 'Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?'
      • Act Three
        • 'You haven't made it any easier for me, have you, Mother?'
        • [shows his familiarity with quick heavy drinking]
        • 'In a way, she treated me - as if I were a kid'
        • 'But it doesn't alter the fact that we all helped to kill her'
    • Inspector
      • Act One
        • [The lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inpector arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder]
        • 'A chain of events'
        • 'It's better to ask for the earth than to take it'
      • Act Two
        • 'We'll have to share our guilt'
        • ''I think  it is a trifle impertinent, Inspector' -Mrs Birling
      • Act Three
        • 'I know - he's your son and this is your house - but look at him'
        • [as Birling looks like interrupting explosively]

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