AIC

• 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 against Eva Smith
• 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'
• Gerald visits places with prostitutes, but is attracted to Eva/Daisy Renton because she is pretty
• I didn't install her there so that I could make love to her but she did become his mistress and he did keep it a secret from Sheila: 'Gerald'
• Gerald used Eva/Daisy Renton for sex and 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'
• Impertinent

  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 if the girl's death is due to anybody then it's due to him: 'Mrs. Birling'
• Mrs. Birling blames the working-class man who got Eva pregnant, not realizing it was her own son Eric
• there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smith's still left with us intertwined with what we think and say and do: 'The Inspector'
• The Inspector wants the Birlings to realize we are all connected and what affects one affects all
• The other Birlings make excuses and dismiss the Inspector's message after he leaves
• The Birlings' actions

  Contributed to Eva Smith's death
• The play questions whether we have a responsibility for others or if they should just look after themselves