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  • Themes
    • Power
      • Wealth
        • "desert plates and champagne glasses"
        • "decanter of port, cigar box"
        • "heavy-looking, rather portentous man"
      • Influence
        • "our Chief Constable [...] I warn you he's an old friend"
        • "it's time you learnt to face responsibility"
        • "No, wait a minute, Miss Birling"
    • Responsibility
      • "If we are all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?"
      • "I can’t help thinking about this girl—destroying herself so horribly—and I’ve been so happy tonight."
      • "Miss Birling has just been made to understand what she did to this girl. She feels responsible."
    • Socialism
      • "But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people."
      • "We do not live alone. We are members of one body."
      • "We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish."
    • Capitalism
      • "Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices."
      • "man has to mind his own business and look after himself."
      • "hard-headed business man"

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