English- inspector calls quotes

Cards (20)

  • Eric
    Half shy, half assertive
  • Sheila
    Mummy isn't it a beauty
  • Mr Birling

    I say there isn't a chance of war
  • Mr Birling
    The titanic.. absolutely unsinkable
  • Mr Birling
    Russia will always be behind naturally
  • Stage direction
    They hear a sharp ring of a front door bell
  • Stage direction
    Impression or massiveness solidity and purposefulness
  • Inspector
    Quite so
    No,mr birling
  • Inspector
    Cutting through massively (3 times)
  • Sheila
    Cutting in -mr birling
  • Sheila
    But these girls arnt cheap labour they're people
  • Inspector
    Steadily
  • Sheila
    (Miserably) so I'm really responsible
  • Gerald
    Now listen, darling
  • Sheila
    Laughs rather hysterically -why you fool he knows
  • Eric
    Still uneasy
  • Sheila
    Your squiffy to Eric
  • Inspector calls was set in 1912 but written in 1942
  • The play is about the birlings family who are all selfish people that don’t care about anyone else except themselves
  • Priestley wrote this play as an attack on the capitalist society which he believed had caused the war