An Inspector Calls

• Name the 5 main themes of AIC:

  • Class divide
  • Older Vs Younger Generation
  • Gender inequality
  • Social responsibility
  • Socialism Vs Capitalism
• Name context for AIC:

  • Play takes place in 1912 but was written by Priestley in 1946
  • Women had gained more rights after World wars
  • Labour party became more popular than the Conservative party
  • Welfare State allowed lower classes to access free healthcare etc.
  • People were more aware of the class divide (Worker's rights, greater sense of unity/equality)
• Name 6 quotes for Mr Birling:

  • It's one of the happiest nights of my life
  • For lower costs and higher prices
  • I can't accept any responsibility
  • It's my duty to keep labour costs down
  • I'd give thousands - yes, thousands
  • They just won't try to understand our position


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Capitalism/Gender Inequality
  • Capitalism
  • Class Divide/Social Responsibility
  • Class Divide/Capitalism
  • Capitalism
  • Younger Vs Older Generation
• Name 6 quotes for Sheila:

  • But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people
  • It was my own fault
  • Looked as if she could take care of herself
  • You'd better take this with you
  • You don't seem to have learnt anything
  • You're pretending everything's just as it was before


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Socialism
  • Social Responsibility
  • Class Divide
  • Gender Inequality
  • Social Responsibility/Socialism/Younger Vs Older Generation
  • Younger Vs Older Generation
• Name 6 quotes for Gerald:

  • Now listen, darling
  • I don't come into this suicide business
  • I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women
  • I didn't ask for anything in return
  • I became at once the most important person in her life
  • Everything's all right now, Sheila


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Gender Inequality
  • Social Responsibility
  • Gender Inequality
  • Gender Inequality
  • Class Divide/Gender Inequality
  • Gender Inequality
• Name 6 quotes for Mrs Birling:

  • Forget about this absurd business
  • Girls of that class
  • I don't think we want any further details of this disgusting affair
  • One of the things that prejudiced me against her case
  • He'd be entirely responsible
  • In the morning they'll be as amused as we are


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Older Vs Younger Generation/Social Responsibility
  • Class Divide
  • Gender Inequality/Class Divide
  • Class Divide
  • Social Responsibility
  • Older Vs Younger Generation
• Name 6 quotes for Eric:

  • half shy, half assertive
  • Women are potty about 'em
  • Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?
  • I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty
  • That was the worst of all
  • I agree with Sheila


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Socialism Vs Capitalism/Older Vs Younger Generation
  • Gender Inequality/Older Vs Younger Generation
  • Socialism/Older Vs Younger Generation
  • Social Responsibility
  • Class Divide/Gender Inequality
  • Socialism/Older Vs Younger Generation
• Name 6 quotes for the Inspector:

  • I'm on duty
  • Put ourselves in the place of these young women
  • We know one young woman who wasn't
  • You mean you don't chose to do, Mrs Birling
  • As if she was an animal, a thing, not a person
  • We are members of one body


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Socialism Vs Capitalism
  • Socialism/Social Responsibility
  • Gender Inequality
  • Socialism/Social Responsibility
  • Gender Inequality/Class Divide
  • Class Divide/Social Responsibility/Socialism
• Name 6 quotes for Eva Smith:

  • A good worker
  • She was a very pretty girl too - with big dark eyes
  • Young and fresh and charming
  • I didn't like her manner
  • Pretty and a good sport
  • She treated me - as if I were a kid


  Themes that match the quotes in order:

  • Capitalism/Class Divide
  • Gender Inequality
  • Gender Inequality
  • Class Divide
  • Gender Inequality
  • Gender Inequality/Class Divide