inspector calls qoutes

• "We are members of one body, we are responsible for each other." - Inspector Goole
• "The time has come when people must take responsibility for what they do" - Inspector Goole
• "It is not the sort of thing that happens to people like us" - Sheila
• "I am sorry about Eva Smith" - Eric Birling
• "A woman who can't keep her legs together ought to be horsewhipped through the streets" - Mr Birling
• "There isn't any such person as an Inspector Goole" - Mr Birling
• "If she hadn't been so silly as to get herself into trouble with this man, she would have got married long ago" - Mrs Birling
• "I don't think it's fair to say that" - Sheila
• "I think she died because there were too many people like you" - Inspector Goole
• "The time has come when we must take responsibility for our actions" - The Inspector
• "She was just a girl...a working class girl" - Eric
• Set in


  April 1912
• Wrote in


  1945
• Themes


  -Class

  -Gender

  -Age (Young and old)

  -Social Responsibility
• Mr Birling (stage directions

  "heavy looking"

  "portentous"

  "provincial in his speech"
• Mr Birling Stage directions (ACT 1)

  "portentous"
• Mr Birling stage directions

  "provincial in his speech"
• Mrs Birling stage directions

  "a rather cold woman and her husbands superior"
• Eric Birling Stage directions ACT 1

  "Eric is in his early twenties,not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive"
• Shelia Birling Stage directions ACT 1

  "A pretty girl in her early 20s, very pleased with life and rather excited"
• Gerald Croft Stage directions ACT 1

  "Gerald Croft is a attractive chap about thirty"
• Mr Birling Act 1 (costs and prices)


  "lower costs and higher prices"

  CAPITALISM
• Mrs Birling Act 1 Confession, class, Eva


  "Girls of that class"

  Declarative

  Class division
• Eric Birling (replying to Mr B) Act 1 (higher wages)

  "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages we try for the highest possible prices"
• Eric Act 3 (admitting what he did,drunk)


  " I was in a state when a chap easily turns nasty"
• Inspector Goole stage directions description


  "He creates at once an impression of massiveness. solidarity and purposefulness"
• Inspector (CHAINS)

  "A chain of events"
• Inspector WORLD QOUTE


  "Its better to ask for the world than to take it"
• Inspector (to mr B) unpleasentness

  "You think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things" INTERROGATIVE TO QUESTION HIS ATTITUDE
• Inspector (replying to Mr Birling boasting about his status and class)

  "I don't play golf"
• INSPECTOR FINAL SPEECH


  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, and what we think and say and do.

  And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, when they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.
• Inspector (replying to Mr B again)

  "Public men, Mr Birling,have responsibilities as well as privelidges"
• Inspector (About Eric)


  "used her (...) as if she was an animal, a thing,not a person"
• Inspector (RESPONSIBILITY)


  "We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for eachover"
• Gerald Croft (trying to impress Mr Birling)


  "I believe you're right, sir"
• Gerald Croft (KEY QOUTE GOOD FAMILY)


  "You seem to be a nice well behaved family"
• Sheila Birling (apologising for her actions)


  "I know I'm to blame-And I'm desperately sorry"
• Sheila Wall Qoute METAPHOR

  "You musn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl"
• Sheila ACCEPTANCE OF HER ACTIONS


  "It was my own fault"
• Eric Birling (blames parents, especially his mother)


  "Your lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but I can't. Nor can mother. We did her in alright"