Inspector Calls Quotes for Themes

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Class - Mr Birling 1
"Pitiful affair." - talking about strikes
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Class - Eric 1
"Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? we try for the highest possible prices" - doesn't agree with his father on class
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Class - Sheila 1
"But these girls aren't cheap labour they're People" - Still shows the younger generation don't think much of the class system
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Class - Gerald 1
"We are respectable citizens and not criminals" - Gerald thinks they are not doing anything wrong if its not breaking the law
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Class - Mrs Birling 1
"Girls of that class" - Mrs Birling looks down on lower class people
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Class - Mrs Birling 2
"As if girl of that sort would ever refuse money" - Mrs Birling thinks all the lower class would never refuse money
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Class - Inspector 1
"Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person" - to Eric when he took advantage of Eva"
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Responsibility - Mr Birling 1
"a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too" - shows gender roles in that time and that he doesn't care about community
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Responsibility - Mr Birling 2
"I can't accept any responsibility" - only cares about the profits of his company and not the workers
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Responsibility - Mrs Birling 1
"I'm sorry she should have come to such a horrible end. But i accept no blame for it all" - Mrs Birling still takes no responsibility for her actions
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Responsibility - Mrs Birling 2
"I think she had only herself to blame." - Blames the girl for her situation even though she could have helped her
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Responsibility - Inspector 1
"It's my duty to ask questions" - Priestley conveys his socialist views through the inspectors care of the community
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Responsibility - Inspector 2
"We are members of one body. We are responsible for the girl's condition" - Priestley further conveys his socialist views and emphasis on community
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Responsibility - Sheila 1
"You talk as if we were responsible " - she had no guilt getting eva fired until she knew what had happened to her
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Responsibility - Sheila 2
"Between us we killed her." - she now realises what they have done and accepts that it was wrong
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Responsibility - Eric 1
“you killed her - and the child she’d have had too" - blames his mother even though the all had a part to play in her death
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Age - Mr Birling 1
"Just keep quiet, Eric, and don't get excited" - treats Eric as a child even though he is an adult
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Age - Mr Birling 2
"Nothing to do with you, Sheila. Run along." - also treats Sheila as a child
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Age - Mrs Birling 1
"He's only a boy" - Mrs Birling also treats Eric as a child
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Age - Mrs Birling 2
"Sheila, i simply don't understand your attitude" - Mrs Birling can't understand why sheila i angry at her
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Age - Inspector
"We often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable." - shows priestley thinks older generations are more stubborn
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Age - Eric
"You don't understand anything. You never did. You never even tried" - Eric to Mrs Birling - Eric says this to further enforce the older generation being stubborn
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Age - Sheila
"It's you two who are being childish - trying not to face the facts" - younger generation accept their mistakes while the older generation blame others and take no blame
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Gender - Sheila 1
"Is it the one you wanted me to have" - stereotype that women only care about material things
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Gender - Sheila 2
"He means i'm getting hysterical now." - another stereotype that women are hysterical
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Gender - Mr Birling 1
"Clothes mean something quite different to a women" - Mr Birling saying that all girls care more about clothes than men
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Gender - Mr Birling 2
"Nothing to do with you sheila. Run along." - talks to Sheila in a condescending way
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Gender - Inspector 1
"And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things" - Inspector wonders why they should be protected from unpleasant thingsgs
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Gender - Inspector 2
"Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person" - Eric used Eva like an animal that he didn't care about
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Gender - Gerald 1
"I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women" - only cares about the look of women
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Supernatural - Sheila 1
"somehow he makes you" - sheila doesn't know how the inspector make them admit to their wrong doings
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Supernatural - Sheila 2
"Its queer - very queer" - thinks the inspector is acting very weird
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Supernatural - Mrs Birling 1
"You have no power to make me change my mind" - Inspector "Yes, I have"
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Supernatural - Mr Birling
"this matter was quite extraordinary" - questions the authenticity of the inspector
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Supernatural - Gerald 1
"he swore there wasn't any Inspector Goole or anybody like him on the force here" - first person to figure out he's not a real inspector
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Supernatural - Gerald 2
"they haven't had a suicide in months" - tells the Birlings that the inspector is fake
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Supernatural - Inspector 1
"I haven't much time" - why would a police inspector investigating a murder run out of time
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God - Inspector 1
"I knew already" - conveys the inspector as omniscient
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God - Inspector 2
"I never take offence" - conveys the inspector as omnibenevolent
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Other cards in this set

Card 2

Front

"Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? we try for the highest possible prices" - doesn't agree with his father on class

Back

Class - Eric 1

Card 3

Front

"But these girls aren't cheap labour they're People" - Still shows the younger generation don't think much of the class system

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

"We are respectable citizens and not criminals" - Gerald thinks they are not doing anything wrong if its not breaking the law

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

"Girls of that class" - Mrs Birling looks down on lower class people

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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