An Inspector Calls Character quotations Birling: we may look forward to a time.. Lower costs and higher prices. Silly pessimistic talk Hard headed, practical man of business Nobody wants war there isnt a chance of war. Titanic..
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An Inspector Calls Character quotations<br>
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Birling:
we may look forward to a time.. Lower costs and higher prices.
Silly pessimistic talk
Hard headed, practical man of business
Nobody wants war… there isn’t a chance of war.
Titanic.. Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.
There’s a fair chance that I might find my way into the next honours list.
A man has to make his own way
Has to look after himself and his family too
Cranks
You’d think everybody has to look after everybody else
Community and all that nonsense Sybil:
When you’re married you’ll realize that men… have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business.
You’ll have to get used to that, just as I had.
It’s a lovely ring. Be careful with it.
Gerald:
[he is the son of] Sir George and Lady Croft
for all last summer when you never came near me
Sheila:
She’s got a nasty temper sometimes
Eric:
Eric suddenly guffaws
‘squiffy’
What about war?<br>
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Arthur Birling ‘Yes, yes. Horrid business’
‘I can’t accept any responsibility.’
‘a good worker’
‘I refused of course’
‘she had to go’
‘Get into trouble? Go on the streets?’
‘It’s my duty to keep labour costs down.’<br>
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Eva Smith Sheila Birling<br>
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Eva Smith Lower class
Committed suicide by drinking disinfectant
Twenty four
Very pretty Sheila Birling Upper middle class
Celebrating her engagement
Early twenties
Pretty<br>
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Eva Smith Lower class
Committed suicide by drinking disinfectant
Twenty four
Very pretty
Worked at Milwards
Had an affair with Gerald Sheila Birling Upper middle class
Celebrating her engagement
Early twenties
Pretty
Shopped at Milwards
Engaged to Gerald<br>
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Sheila Birling ‘Oh - how horrible! Was it an accident?’
‘I felt rotten about it at the time’
‘So I’m really responsible?’
‘I was in a furious temper’
‘Very pretty’
‘you might have been said to be jealous of her’
I’ll never, never do it again to anybody’ Arthur Birling And then she got herself into trouble there, I suppose?
Not doing her work properly?
There must have been something wrong.
We were having a nice little family celebration tonight. And a nasty mess you’ve made of it now haven’t, you?<br>
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Gerald:
‘My God!’
‘I didn’t install her there to make love to her’
‘I didn’t feel about her as she did about me’
‘it wasn’t disgusting’
‘rather upset’ Eva/Daisy:
‘with other ideas’
‘women of the town’
‘she was desperately hard up’
‘she’d been happier than she’d ever been’
‘she went away for two months’ Birling:
‘I only did what any employer might have done
‘you must understand that a lot if young men’
Mrs B:
‘you know of course that my husband was Lord Mayor’
‘disgusting affair’
Eric:
‘He’s been steadily drinking for the last two years’
Sheila:
‘I know I’m to blame and I’m desperately sorry’
‘you and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner’<br>
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Mrs B:
‘a prominent member of the Brumley Women’s charity’
‘I think she had only herself to blame’
‘I did nothing I’m ashamed of’
‘I used my influence to have it refused’
‘I’ve done nothing wrong’
‘I blame the young man who was the father of the child’
Eva:
She appealed to your organisation for help’
‘this girl was going to have a child’ Mr Birling:
‘when this comes out’
Eric:
‘excitable queer mood’
‘silly and wild and drinking too much’
‘he’d stolen it’
Sheila:
‘For letting father and me have her chucked out of her jobs!’<br>
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Eric Birling:
‘You haven’t made it any easier for me have you mother?’
‘I insisted - it seems’
‘I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty’
‘I wasn’t in love with her or anything’
‘about fifty pounds’ ‘you stole the money?’
‘you killed her… your own grandchild – you killed them both’
‘Just used her for the end of a stupid, drunken evening as if she was an animal’
Eva Smith:
‘she’d not had much to eat that day’
‘she didn’t know what to do. There was a woman who wanted her to go there.’
‘she told me she thought she was going to have a baby’
‘This girl killed herself – and died a horrible death. But each of you helped to kill her’ Mr Birling:
‘I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can’
‘you’re not the kind of father a chap could turn to’
Mrs Birling:
‘your mother refused that help’
Gerald:
‘at least he had some affection for her and made her happy for a while’<br>
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Younger generation I’m ashamed of you as well (E)
You don’t seem to have learnt anything (S)
He was our police inspector all right. (E)
I suppose we’re all nice people now. (S)
I do take some interest in it. I take too much, that’s my trouble. (E)
It’s mine too. (S)
You’re beginning to pretend that nothing’s really happened.. This girl’s still dead isn’t she? (E)
I did what I did. Mother did what she did. And the rest if you did what you did to her. (E)
You’re just beginning to pretend all over again. (S)
We all helped to kill her. (E)
Between us we all drove that girl to suicide(S)
Sheila’s speeches on pages 70-71. Older generation There’ll be a public scandal…I was almost certain for a knighthood (B)
There’s every excuse for what both your mother and I did (B)
Eric, I’m absolutely ashamed of you. (Mrs B)
…public scandal.. Who here will suffer from that more that I will? (B)
Probably a socialist or some sort of crank (B)
This makes a difference you know (B)
Some fathers.. Would have kicked you out .. by this time. (B)
But how do you know it’s the same girl? (G)
They’ll be as amused as we are. (Mrs B)
You’d better ask Gerald for that ring back (B)
The famous younger generation who know it all. They can’t even take a joke – (B)<br>
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Inspector Goole Lighting should be… brighter and harder.
Massiveness, solidity and purposefulness
Only recently transferred.
Goole. G. double O-L-E.
Only recently transferred.
One person and one line of inquiry at a time.
A chain of events.
There are a lot of young women living that existence in every city… If there weren’t, the factories and warehouses wouldn’t know where to look for cheap labour.
Miss Birling has just been made to understand what she did to this girl.
We have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt.
We often do [make a great impression] on the young ones.
She was here alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate.
Her position now is she lies with a burnt-out inside on a slab.
Do my duty.
Each of you helped to kill her.
We don’t live alone… we are responsible for each other.
Fire and blood and anguish.<br>
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PETER checklist – have you… Made a clear point
Supported with a short quotation
Analysed the effect of the quotation
Picked a word/device to discuss language
Used terminology
Written about audience
Written about Priestley’s intentions
Considered the form of a play
Discussed dramatic irony.<br>
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Get into these groups and complete character page given Arthur – Sam, Joel, Cameron
Sheila- Hetty, Luke, Jade
Sybil – Rhys, Ciaran, Oliver
Eric – Faye , Megan, Kelsey
Gerald – Jordan, Dana P, Jack K
Inspector – Faye T, Amy
J B Priestley – Lauren, Cerys, Dana B
Eva/Daisy – Shannon, Jack D, Mark<br>
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Now get into these two groups: Sam
Cameron
Hetty
Rhys
Faye S-H
Megan
Jack K
Jordan
Amy
Dana B
Shannon
Lauren Joel
Luke
Jade
Ciaran
Oliver
Kelsey
Dana P
Faye Th
Cerys
Mark
Jack D<br>
