Inspector calls

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    • Mother, I think it was a cool and vile I mean thing to do - Shelia
    • Unsinkable absolutely unsinkable –Mr birling
    • Look mummy isn’t it a beauty- Sheila
    • I’ll never never do it to anyone againSheila
    • These girls aren’t cheap labour– Sheila
    • you’re squiffySheila
    • A man has to make his own way, look after himselfMr Birling
    • All mixed up like bees in a hive community and all that nonsense– Mr Birling
    • Do you play golf inspector? – Mr Birling
    • There’s every excuse for what your mother and I did – Mr Birling
    • As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money – Mrs Birling
    • Eric, I’m absolutely ashamed of you – Mrs Birling
    • It’s her own fault – Mrs Birling
    • Acting like hysterical childMrs Birling
    • We will helped to kill her – Eric
    • I was in that state, where a chap easily turns, nastyEric
    • You’re not the type of father, a chap could go to – Eric
    • What matters is what happened to that girlEric
    • I didn’t keep her there so that I could make love to her – Gerald
    • Insisting on on a parting gift – Gerald
    • Dough faced woman – Gerald
    • there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smithsinspector
    • Fire blood and anguishinspector
    • It’s better to ask for the world than to take it – inspector
    • Burnt inside outinspector
    • No, I’m on dutyinspector
    • Stage direction (pink and intimate, until the inspector arrives, and then it should be bright and harder.)
      Foreshadows the later, exposure of the birlings
    • Yes, but you can’t. It’s too late. She’s dead.
      Short sentences to be impactful
    • You’re offering money at the wrong time

      Cyclical structure as it ends with the inspector, refusing bribery
    • No, thank you… I’m on duty
      Alcohol, bears connotations of emotional behaviour. Burling is trying to corrupt the inspector.
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