An Inspector Calls - Social Class
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- Created on: 20-05-17 12:48
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- Social Class
- Mr Birling
- "She got herself into trouble there, I suppose?" Act 1
- "Get into trouble? Go on the streets?" Act 1
- "I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours list - " Act 3
- "If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth." Act 1
- Sheila
- "But these girls aren't cheap labour they're people." Act 1
- "You mustn't try and build up a kind of wall between us and that girl." Act 2
- Mrs Birling
- "Though naturally I know nothing about this girl." Act 2
- "I'm Mrs Birling, y'know." Act 2
- "So I used my influence to have it refused." Act 2
- "My husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago" Act 2
- "No. Why should I?" (recognise her on the photograph)"
- "She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position." Act 2
- Eric
- "she'd no money left - so I insisted on giving her enough money..." Act 3
- "She wouldn't take any more (money)." Act 3
- "What does it matter now whether they give you a knighthood or not?" Act 3
- Inspector Goole
- "no money...living in lodgings, with no relatives to help her...lonely, half-starved, she was feeling desperate." Act 1
- "So you used the power you had...daughter of a good customer and also of a man well known in the town." Act 1
- Act 3 - short questions when questioning Eric shows power and authority.
- "She died in misery and agony - hating life - " Act 2
- Gerald
- "After all, y'know, we're respectable citizens and not criminals." Act 1
- "I know we'd have done the same thing." Act 1 (firing Eva Smith, shows his upper class)
- Mr Birling
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