An Inspector Calls

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Inspector Goole - Social responsibility
'Their lives, their hopes,their fearers, their suffering and chance of happiness, all interwined with our lives and what we think and say and do' ' each of you helped kill her'
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Inspector Goole - Politics (Socialism vs Capitalism)
'We are all responsible for each other... We are memebers of one body'
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Inspector Goole - Hierarchy of social class
(dryly) ' i dont play golf'
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Inspector Goole - Gender
To birling- 'You'd think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?'
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Inspector Goole - Age/generation Gap + Responsibility
'Taught in fire and in blood and in anguish' 'he's giving us the rope so we'll hang ourselves'
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Mr Birling - Social responsibility
'A man has to make his own way...look after himself and his own and..' Doorbell interrupts - it's the inspector
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Mr Birling - Politics (Socialism vs Capitalism)
'they'd soon be asking for the earth ,' 'wild talk about possible labour trouble in the near future'
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Mr Birling - Hierarchy of social class
'It's exactly the same part your father gets' 'only a knighthood' ;(approachfully) Arthur your not meant to say such things' - Mrs Birling
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Mr Birling - Gender
(sharply) Sheila, take your mother into the drawing room (Sheila) (protesting) 'i dont want to' Birling(very sharply) You heard what i said.'
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Mr Birling - Age/generation Gap + Responsibility
‘fiddlesticks’ ‘I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can’ 'We've been had' same words as Gerald
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Mrs Birling - Social responsibiliy
'Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility.'
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Mrs Birling - Politics (Socialism vs Capitalism)
'I used my influence to have it refused.'
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Mrs Birling - Politics (Socialism vs Capitalism)
Girls of that class… ‘she was giving herself ridiculous airs’ ‘her husband’s social superior’
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Mrs Birling - Gender
‘you’re looking tired dear…forget about this absurd business’ Used to men talking about...
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Mrs Birling - Age/Generation Gap + Responsibility
‘you’re looking tired dear…forget about this absurd business’ Used to men talking about...
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Gerald Croft - Social Responsibility
‘we’re respectable citizens and not criminals’
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Gerald Croft - Politics (Socialism vs Capitalism)
'Hear, hear! And I think my father would agree to that.'
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Gerald Croft - Social Class – hierarchy of society
‘the easy well-bred man-about-town’ 'chap'
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Gerald Croft - Gender
‘She was young and pretty and warm-hearted – and extremely grateful’ 'I did keep a girl last summer.'
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Gerald Croft - Age/Generation Gap + Responsibility
'(Triumphantly) Well, you were right. There isn't any such inspector. We've been had.'
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Sheila Birling - Social responsibiliy
‘So I’m really responsible?’
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Sheila Birling - Politics (Socialism vs Capitalism)
'But these girls aren’t cheap labour –they’re people.'
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Sheila Birling - Politics (Socialism vs Capitalism)
‘mummy…squiffy’
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Sheila Birling - Social Class – hierarchy of society
‘last summer, when you never came near me’ “I’m sorry, Daddy.” She looks attentive, as they all do.
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Sheila Birling - Gender
‘last summer, when you never came near me’ “I’m sorry, Daddy.” She looks attentive, as they all do.
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Sheila Birling - Age/Generation Gap + Responsibility
'(laughs rather hysterically) why – you fool – he knows. Of course he knows.' ‘it frightens me, the way you talk’ 'Don't interfere, please, father.'
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Eric Birling - Social Responsibility
‘the fact remains that I did what I did’
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Eric Birling - Politics (Socialism vs Capitalism)
Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?
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Eric Birling - Social Class – hierarchy of society
used Eva like ‘an animal, a thing, not even a person’
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Eric Birling - Age/Generation Gap + Responsibility
‘the fact remains that I did what I did’ ‘I’m ashamed of you’
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Eva Smith/Daisy Renton - Social Responsibility
'Two hours ago a young woman died...she'd swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course.'
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Eva Smith/Daisy Renton - Social Class – hierarchy of society
‘country-bred’
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Eva Smith/Daisy Renton - Gender
‘very pretty – soft brown hair and big dark eyes’
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Eva Smith/Daisy Renton - Age/Generation Gap + Responsibility
'a girl still died'
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Card 2

Front

'We are all responsible for each other... We are memebers of one body'

Back

Inspector Goole - Politics (Socialism vs Capitalism)

Card 3

Front

(dryly) ' i dont play golf'

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

To birling- 'You'd think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?'

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

'Taught in fire and in blood and in anguish' 'he's giving us the rope so we'll hang ourselves'

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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