AIC 2

• Mr Birling


  'I can't accept any responsibility' - He doesn't want to be accused of making a mistake in his judgement. Modal verb 'can't' suggests accepting blame goes against his nature. Adverb 'any' reveals his complete lack of morality and sacking her had no impact on her life.
• Mr Birling


  'I only did what any employer might have done' - Knows it was morally wrong as seen by the Imperative verb shows this
• Mr Birling


  'As if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive-community and all that nonsense' - Simile is an attempt to trivialise the concept of socialism
• Mr Birling


  'Lower costs and higher prices' - Mirroring how it is capitalists' ultimate goals. Microcosm for capitalism emphasising how money and profit motivate everything in society
• Mr Birling


  • A heavy looking, rather portentous man - Adjective 'portentous' gives an immediate indication of Mr Birling's self-indulged temperament. 'Heavy looking' - importance.
• Mr Birling


  'You made her pay a heavy price for that' - Realistically raising their wages would not have affected his business. The price Eva was forced to pay was her life. Metaphor 'if price' alludes to economy and capitalist greed as the direct cause of her death. Shows how blind he is to others' needs and humanity. What is a small consequence to the upper class is a huge one for the lower class
• Mr Birling


  'The famous younger generation who know it all and can't even take a joke' - Sarcastic and condescending, fully believes he is right. Distasteful to joke about a girl's suicide
• Mr Birling


  Knighthood - Constantly trying to impress Gerald and win over his family which strains his relationship with Eric 'you're not the kind of father a chap can go to when he's in trouble'
• Mrs Birling


  'I blame the father of the child it's his responsibility'
• Mrs Birling


  'I think she had only herself to blame'
• Mrs Birling


  'She was claiming an elaborate fine feels and scruples that were simply absurd for a girl in her position'
• Mrs Birling


  'Deserving cases' - Distinguish between poor who can and can't help themselves
• Eric


  'You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely but I can't. Nor can mother we all did her in all right'
• Eric


  'The fact is I did what I did'
• Eric


  'I didn't even remember that's the hellish thing'
• Sheila


  'And probably between us we killed her' - Direct confession of guilt. She sees the blame they should all share and this statement's honesty and bluntness is a refreshing change from her parents' ambiguity and deceit.
• Sheila


  'You pretend everything's just as it was before'
• Sheila


  'You and I aren't the same people who sat down to dinner here'
• Sheila


  'Constantly crying'
• Sheila


  'What he made me feel, fire, blood and anguish' - Mirroring Inspector's (Inspector is a didactic vehicle) language as his proxy to enlighten her family from the consequences of capitalism and emulates his words.
• Inspector


  'If men will not learn that lesson they will in fire, blood and anguish' - Apocalyptic imagery
• Lighting is pink and intimate then hard and bright