An Inspector Calls Themes: Social Responsibility
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- Created on: 21-05-16 17:30
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- Social Responsibility
- Birling - thinks that community responsibility is nonsense. Interests of business are more important than worker's rights
- "I discharged her from my employment nearly two years ago"
- "Community and all that nonsense"
- Mrs Birling - believes she has no responsibility towards the working class - her prejudices can't be changed because they are so ingrained
- "When you're married you'll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on business"
- Sheila - realises that getting Eva sacked out of spite was irresponsible - but she didn't do anything about it. The Inspector challenges her to improve her behaviour
- "What do you mean by that? You talk as if we were responsible"
- Eric - realises too late that his selfish actions were responsible for ruining Eva's chances of improving her life
- "I insisted on giving her enough money to keep her going - until she refused any more"
- "He's admitted he was responsible for the girls condition"
- Final speech is clear and to the point: a summary of his lesson about responsibility
- "We are all members of one body"
- "We are responsible for each other"
- Inspector wasn't trying to make the family feel guilty, but to make society aware of the difficulties faced by all the "millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths"
- All the events in An Inspector Calls are connected
- Priestley's moral seems to be that: "it doesn't take great people to change the world - we all change it everyday just by the way we treat each other"
- Birling - thinks that community responsibility is nonsense. Interests of business are more important than worker's rights
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