A.I.C

• • Birling: ‘now you’ve brought us together, and perhaps we may look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices.’ 
• “We employers at last are coming together to see that our interests – and the interests of Capital – are properly protected. And we’re in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity.’ 
• ‘Just let me finish Eric. You’ve a lot to learn yet. And I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business. And I say there isn’t a chance of war.’ 

  full of himself, ironic as war happens a few years later
• ‘this new liner… the Titanic – she sails next week… New York in five days – and every luxury – and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable. That’s what you’ve got to keep you eye on, facts like that’s progress like that’ 

  ironic as the titanic sinks... implies mr birling doesnt know as much as he thinks he does. foreshadowing for the play further on?


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• Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices.’  (ERIC) more understanding. gap between old vs young
• There are a lot of young 9women living that sort of existence in every city and big town in this country, Miss Birling. If there weren’t, the factories and warehouses wouldn’t know where to look for cheap labour. Ask your father.’ (INSPECTOR) Knowledgeable of everyone's situations "ask your father"
• ‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people.’  ( SHELIA) opposite views to father "lower wadges and higher prices" emphasises gap between young and old
• ‘ One Eva Smith has gone – but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering, and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, with what we think and say and do. We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.’ INSPECTORS FINAL QUOTE