Inspector Calls

• "be living in a world that'll have forgotten about all these Capital versus Labour agitations" Act 1, Mr Birling
• "perhaps we may be looking forward to a time when Crofts and Birlings are working together - for lower costs and higher prices" Mr Birling Act 1
• "a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too, of course" Act 1, Mr Birling
• "I can't accept any responsibility" Act 1 pg 14
• "a chain of events" Inspector, Act 1
• "we'll have to share something. if there's nothing else, we'll have to share our guilt" Inspector Act 2
• "we don't live alone. we are members of one body. we are responsible for eachother" act 3 inspector, semantic field of connection
• "if men will not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish" Inspector Act 3
• "but after all it is better to ask for the earth than take it" inspector act 1
• "nice little family celebration"

  "that's more or less what i was thinking earlier tonight, when i was in the infirmary looking at what's left of eva smith. a nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody's made of it"

  act 1 - inspector responds as birling says his family celebration has been ruined
•   "and now she'll make you pay a heavier price still"
• "public men.. have responsibilities as well as privileges"
• "there are lot of young girls living that sort of existence in every city and big town in this country.. otherwise factories wouldn't know where to look for cheap labour" act 1
• "she looked young and fresh and charming and all together out of place down there" act 2
• "i wasn't in love with her or anything - but i liked her - she was pretty and a good sport" act 3 eric
• "pretending all over again" act 3
• "take my word for it you youngsters - and I've learn in the good hard school for experience" act 1
• " as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense" act 1
• "we don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other." act 3
• "naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case" act 2
• "as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!" act 2
• "he could. he could have kept her on instead of throwing her out" act 1
• "why shouldn't they try for higher wages? we try for the highest possible prices" sheila act 1
• mr birling

  "hardheaded, practical, businessman"
• inspector

  "creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness"
• "several hundred young women" who "keep changing" chap 1
• "intensely grateful"

  "became at once the most important person in her life

  "wonderful fairy prince"

  gerald + eva act 2
• "just used for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person" act 3
• "now just be quiet so that your father can decide what we ought to do" mrs birling act 3
• "you'll have to get used to that, just as i did" act 1
• "she had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go" mr birling act 1
• "mummy - isn't it a beauty?"

  "now i really feel engaged"

  sheila act 1
• "half serious, half playful" act 1

  "why - you fool - he knows. of course he knows" act 1

  "hands him the ring" act 2

  sheila relationship with gerald
• "she was a lively good-looking girl - country-bred, I fancy" mr birling act 1
• "hysterical young fool" mr birling to eric act 3
• "well i'm old enough to be married, aren't i, and i'm not married" act 3 eric
• "young and pretty and warmed hearted - and intensely grateful" act 2
• "pretending all over again" act 3
• "you'll have to get used to that, just as i had"
• "now i really feel engaged"