The Inspector

• The Inspector - [Morality / Responsibility] - "Speak carefully, weightily"

  • The use of the adjective "weightily" evidences the impact of the Inspector's moral message. Also, speaking "carefully" directly contrasts Mr Birling, who speech is diluted with dashes and hesitations
• The Inspector - [Morality / Responsibility] - "If you're easy with me, I'm easy with you"

  • use of parallelism in this phrase is, perhaps, symbolic for the Inspector's message. This sense of equality and treating others how you with to be treated is inherently socialist
• The Inspector - [Morality / Responsibility] - "Yes, but you can't. It's too late. She's dead.

  • Uses short sentences and a terse triplet of expressions to convey an impactful message and express the need for radical change
• The Inspector - [Morality / Responsibility] - "Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges"

  • Structure of the sentence puts responsibilities before privileges
  • Inspector reminds Birling he cannot do as he pleases without considering the potential consequences
• The Inspector - [Morality / Responsibility] - "Their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness all intertwined with our lives"

  • Verb "intertwined" shows the need for greater social responsibility.
  • Anaphora puts emphasis on "them" being the working class and the need for help
  • Juxtaposition of the abstract nouns "hopes" and "fears"
• The Inspector - [Morality / Responsibility] - "we are members of one body"

  • metaphor alludes to the Book of Genesis as this phrase is used in Holy Communion.
  • Therefore, through echoing the words of God, Priestley implies that the Inspector is speaking on God's behalf
• The Inspector - [Morality / Responsibility] - "Each of you helped to kill her, remember that. Never forget it.

  • Despite none of the characters directly ending Eva's life, they have all had a part to play in her death and are therefore responsible for diving her to suicide
  • More short sentences, showing the limit of societies
• The Inspector - [Morality / Responsibility] - "You used the power you had to punish the girl"

  • plainly states how Sheila abused her power, out of jealousy in order to punish Eva Smith for being more beautiful than her.
  • Repetition of the second person personal pronoun "you"