Act 1

• ' lighting should be pink and intimate until the inspector arrives and then it should be brighter and brighter and harder' - stage direction
• 'you youngester, just remeber what i said' - mr birling themes:age, learning about life, capitalism
• 'i wanted you to have the benefit of my experience' - mr birling themes:age, capitalism , judgement
• 'youve a lot to learn yet' - mr birling. Themes: age, judgement, capitalism
• 'they worked us hard in those days' - mr birling themes: age, learning about life, capitalism
• ' i think sheila and i had better go into the drawing room and leave you men' - mrs birlings themes: gender, capitalism
• 'suddenly i felt i had to laugh' - eric themes: age, socialism, judgement, social responsibility
• ' he could have kept her on instead of throwing her out' - eric themes: socialism, judgement, age, social responsibility
• 'its exactly the same port your father gets from him' - Mr birling

  Themes: social class, capitalism, age, family life
• 'when your married you'll realize that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business. You'll have to get used to that, just as I had' - Mrs birling

  Themes: gender, learning about life, social class, capitalism vs socialism, judgement
• 'half playful, half serious' - sheila

  Themes: socialism, age, gender
• ' your squiffy' - Sheila

  Themes: age, judgement, social class, family life
• 'what an expression, Sheila? Really the things you girls pick these days' - Mrs birling

  Themes: judgement, gender, age, soical class, capitalism vs socialism
• ' don't be an ass, eric' - Sheila

  Themes: age, family life, judgement
• 'you're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted, your father and I have been friendly rivals in business for some time now' - Mr birling

  Themes: capitalism, soical class
• 'crofts and birlings are no longer competing' - Mr birling

  Themes: capitalism, family life, soical class, learning about life
• 'oh-it's wonderful! Loo- mummy- isn't it a beauty?' - Sheila

  Themes:age, gender, judgement, social class
• 'daddy' - Sheila

  Themes: age
• 'i speak as a hard-headed business man' - Mr birling

  Themes: age, gender, social class, judgement, capitalism
• 'we've passed the worst of it' - Mr birling

  Themes:judgement, capitalism, age
• 'i believe you're right, sir' - Gerald

  Themes: capitalism, social class, gender, judgement
• 'germans don't want war' - Mr birling

  Themes: judgement, age
• 'everything to lose and nothing to gain by war' - Mr birling

  Themes: age, judgement, capitalism
• ' I say there isn't a chance of war' - Mr birling

  Themes:judgement, age, capitalism
• ' unsinkable absolutely unsinkable' - Mr birling

  Themes:age, judgement, capitalism
• 'now you three young people, just listen to this' - Mr birling

  Themes:age, social class, capitalism vs socialism, social responsibility
• 'by that time you'll be living in a world that'll have forgotten all these capital versus labour agitations and all these silly little wat scares' - Mr birling

  Themes: capitalism vs socialism , judgement, social responsibility
• ' we hardheaded practical business man must say something sometime. And we don't guess-we've had experience- and we know' - Mr birling

  Themes: capitalism, social class, age
• 'now listen darling-' - Gerald

  Themes: gender, socialism vs capitalism, social class
• 'for god's sake -don't say anything to the inspector' - Gerald

  Themes: gender, social responsibility, capitalism vs socialism, social class
• 'why - you fool - he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet.' - Sheila

  Themes: age, gender, socialism vs capitalism, social class, social responsibility, judgement
• 'my mother' - Sheila

  Themes: age
• 'ill never, never do it again to anybody' - Sheila

  Themes: social responsibility , socialism, age, social class
• 'and if I could help her now, I would' - Sheila

  Themes: social responsibility, age, social class, judgement
• ' she was the right type for it, just as I was the wrong type' - Sheila

  Themes: social class, judgement, gender
• 'she was a very pretty girl too - with big dark eyes - and that didn't make it any better' - gerald

  Themes: gender, social class
• 'ive had a few drinks, including rather a lot of champagne' - Eric

  Themes: social class, age, judgement, socialism
• 'you talk as if we're responsible' - Sheila

  Themes: soical responsibility, learning about life, social class
• 'these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people' - Sheila

  Themes: gender, social class, age, social responsiblity, socialism vs capitalism, judgement
• 'there are a lot of young women living that sort of existence in every city and big town in this country' - inspector

  Themes: gender, age, social class, judgement