Inspector calls - Social Responsibility
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- Created on: 08-11-20 09:34
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- Social Responsibility
- Mr Birling
- 'a man has to make his own way-has to look after himself-and his family too'
- To Eric 'about time you learn a few responsibilities'
- 'he's admitted he was responsible for the girl's condition'
- 'there will be a public scandal'
- 'there's every excuse for what your mother and I did'
- 'Obviously it has nothing whatever to do with the wretched girl’s suicide'
- Gerald
- 'I don't come into this suicide buisness'
- 'how do we know he showed us the same photograph?'
- The Inspector
- 'apologise for what - doing my duty?'
- final speech
- Mrs Birling
- 'I'm very sorry. But I think she had only herself to blame.'
- 'I consider I did my duty'
- 'I accept no blame for it at all'
- 'He should be made an example of'
- 'I consider it your duty'
- 'Make sure he’s compelled to confess in public to his responsibility'
- Sheila
- '(miserably) So I'm really responsible'
- 'I behaved badly too. I know I did I'm ashamed of it.
- 'it doesn't make any real difference, y'know'
- Eric
- 'you're beginning to pretend now that nothing's really happened at all'
- 'I say the girl's dead and we all helped kill her - and that's what matters -'
- 'it's what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters
- CONTEXT
- Inspector goes to the Birlings’ to encourage them to be ?accountable ?for their actions, and to ?take responsibility for others
- Priestley shows his audience that ?all actions have consequences
- By looking after others, Priestley suggests society as a whole will ?benefit
- Play ?condemns ?those in ?power ?for not protecting the people they were supposed to, and for ?leading the country into war without considering whom it would affect
- Priestley uses the theme of social responsibility to advocate for a ?Welfare State
- Mr Birling
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