An Inspector Calls quotation

• Titanic she sails next week unsinkable absolutely unsinkable: 'Mr. Birling'
• Birling makes incorrect predictions

  Audience knows the Titanic sank, war broke out with Germany, and further strikes were likely
• the way some of these cranks talk and right now you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else: 'Mr. Birling'
• Cranks


  People who have unusual ideas, like socialists and revolutionaries
• if you don't come down sharply on some of these people they'd soon be asking for the earth: 'Mr. Birling'
• These people


  Birling's workers in the factory
• but she was very pretty and looked as though she could take care of herself I couldn't be sorry for her: 'Sheila Birling'
• Sheila initially excuses her actions


  Sheila complained about Eva Smith, causing her to lose her job
• I don't suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide girls of that class: 'Mrs. Birling'
• We


  Mrs. Birling's social class
• I hate those hard I'd doe faced women but then I noticed a girl who looked quite different she was very pretty: 'Gerald'
• Hard I'd dough faced women

  Prostitutes
• I didn't install her there so that I could make love to her but she did become his mistress: 'Gerald'
• Gerald used Eva/Daisy Renton for sex


  Kept it secret from Sheila
• yes I think it was simply a piece of gross impertinence quite deliberate as naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case: 'Mrs. Birling'
• Impertinence


  Not showing proper respect to one's superiors
• the man who got the young woman pregnant Easter blame he should be made an example of: 'Mrs. Birling'
• Mrs. Birling blames the working-class man

  But it was her own son Eric who got Eva pregnant
• there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smith's still left with us: 'Inspector'
• Eva Smith is a very common name in the UK, representing millions of working-class people
• The Birlings dismiss the inspector's message


  Only Sheila and Eric feel responsible
• The play questions whether we have a responsibility for others or if they should just look after themselves