Just quotes

• "you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else as if we were all mixed up, together like bees in a hive" - mr birling


  ACT 1
• Mr Birling: "You'll apologise at once I'm a public man"

  Inspector: "Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges."


  ACT 2
• "The money's not the important thing. It's what we all did to her that matters. And I still feel the same about it" - eric


  ACT 3
• “a man has to make his own way has to look after himself and his family, too, of course” -Mr Birling to Gerald

  ACT 1
• ‘I can’t stop thinking about it ’– Sheila Birling


  Act 2
• “I know I’m to blame - and I’m desperately sorry” - Sheila Birling


  ACT 2
• “Working together, for lower costs and higher prices”  Arthur Birling


  ACT 1
• “but these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people” – Sheila Birling


  ACT 1
• “Everything’s all right now, Sheila” – Gerald Croft


  ACT 3
• “I’m very sorry. But I think she had only herself to blame” – Sybil Birling


  ACT 2
• "Girls of that class" – Sybil Birling


  ACT 2
• “I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty” - Eric Birling


  ACT 3
• “I did keep a girl last summer. I’ve admitted it. And I’m sorry Sheila.” – Gerald Croft


  ACT 2
• "I did nothing I'm ashamed of or that won't bear investigation ... I consider I did my duty."-Mrs Birling


  ACT 2
• "You and I aren't the same people who sat down to dinner here." - Sheila to Gerald


  ACT 3
• "We're respectable citizens not criminals." - Gerald Croft


  ACT 1
• "What about this ring?" - Gerald Croft


  ACT 3
• "an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness" - description of inspector


  ACT 1

  Semantic field of size showing inspectors power and importance

  elevates inspector above birling
• "they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish" - inspector


  ACT 3

  metaphor that men will be condemned to hell on earth if they cannot live together

  short sentence presents his opinions as facts
• "we don't live alone. we are members of one body. we are responsible for each other" - inspector


  ACT 3

  anaphora - doesn't believe in class division
• 'pink and intimate' to 'brighter and harder' - lighting


  rose tinted glasses at beginning, they are only aware of themselves

  brighter and harder represents the spotlight the inspector has put on them and their actions
• "one person and one line of inquiry at a time" - inspector 


  ACT 1

  shows authority

  one person at a time allows them to reflect on their actions alone, and for them to show how they react to the responsibility
• "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages" - eric


  ACT 1

  sticking up for lower class very early on, shows potential to become socialist

  challenging his own father's power
• "unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable" mr birling


  ACT 1

  Shows his blind faith in development and technology