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27 Cards in this Set
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'Mr Birling is a heavy-looking... |
...,rather portentous man in his middle fifties [and] rather provincial in his speech.' - Stage Directions highlighting Mr Birling's character. |
Page 1. This quote is important because it introduces us to Mr Birling. |
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"We hard-headed practical... |
...business men must say something sometime. And we don't guess - we've had experience - and we know." - Mr Birling, advising Eric and Gerald |
Page 7. This quote is important because it shows Mr Birling's opinion of himself and the 'esteem' of his opinion in his own life. |
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"A man has to... |
...mind his own business and look after his own - and -" - Mr Birling, before interruption by the arrival of the inspector |
Page 10. This quote is important because it reveals Mr Birling's opinion on power, influence, and family. |
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'[Mrs Birling] is about fifty... |
..., a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior.' - Stage directions highlighting Mrs Birling's character. |
Page 1. This quote is important because it introduces us to Mrs Birling. |
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'Sheila is a pretty girl... |
..., in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.' - Stage directions highlighting Sheila's character. |
Page 1. This quote is important because it introduces us to Sheila. |
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"But these girls... |
...aren't cheap labour - they're people." - Sheila Birling talking about her father's factory girls and wages. |
Page 19. This is an important quote because it shows Sheila's sympathy for others. |
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'Eric is in his early twenties... |
..., not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive.' - Stage Directions highlighting Eric's character. |
Page 2. This quote is important because it introduces us to Eric. |
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'Gerald Croft is an attractive chap... |
..., about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the well-bred young man-about-town.' - Stage Directions highlighting Gerald's character. |
Page 2. This quote is important because it introduces us to Gerald. |
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'The Inspector...creates at once... |
...an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness. He is a man in his fifties...He speaks carefully, weightily.' - Stage Directions highlighting the Inspector's character. |
Page 11. This quote is important because it introduces us to Inspector Goole. |
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"I've thought that it would do us all... |
...a bit of good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves in the place of these young women counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedrooms." - The Inspector showing his social conscience, similar to Priestley's own voice. |
Page 19. This quote is important because it highlights Inspector Goole's character, mission, and morals. |
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"That's what you've got to keep your eye on... |
...facts like that, progress - and not a few German officers talking nonsense and a few scaremongers here making a fuss about nothing." -Mr Birling, we know that he doesn't know what he's talking about - WW1 broke out in 1914, 2 years later. |
Page 7. This quote is important because it shows appearance and reality. |
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"The Titanic - she sails next week... |
...New York in five days - and every luxury - and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable." - Mr Birling on the Titanic and progress. |
Page 7. This quote is important because it shows appearance and reality in the eyes of Mr Birling. |
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"We've no proof... |
...it was the same photograph and therefore no proof it was the same girl." - Gerald Croft reflecting on the Inspector's visit. |
Page 67. This quote is important because it shows appearance and reality in the light of the Inspector's visit. |
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"But don't forget... |
...I'm ashamed of you as well - yes both of you." - Eric, having learnt a vital moral lesson and therefore condemning his parents on their inability to do the same. |
Page 57. This quote is important because it shows morality. |
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"When you're married you'll realize... |
...that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business. You'll have to get used to that, just as I had." - Mrs Birling talking to Sheila about being a good wife. |
Page 3. This quote is important because it shows the relationship between the sexes. |
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"I don't dislike you... |
...as I did half an hour ago, Gerald. In fact, in some odd way, I rather respect you more than I have ever done." - Sheila after learning of her fiancé's affair and seeing the importance of principled action. |
Page 40. This quote is important because it show the relationship between the sexes. |
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"Public men, Mr Birling... |
..., have responsibilities as well as privileges." - The Inspector, reminding Mr Birling how those with power/influence must do their duty for others. |
Page 41. This quote is important because it shows responsibility. |
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"Whoever that chap was... |
..., the fact remains that I did what I did. And mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her. " - Eric, having learnt a lesson from the Inspector and his own actions. |
Page 64. This quote is important because it shows responsibility in action. |
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"I accept no... |
...blame for it at all." - Mrs Birling revealing how irresponsible she is, despite being show how she helped enable Eva Smith's death. |
Page 56. This quote is important because it show responsibility and the refusal to accept it. |
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"We are members of one body... |
...the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish." - Inspector Goole, in his final speech, this raises many questions about the future. |
Page 56. This is an important quote because it shows power and class and how social change needs to happen. |
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"Yes - except for all last summer... |
...,when you never came near me, and I wondered what had happened to you." - Sheila (half serious, half playful) talking to Gerald, a foreshadowing of Gerald's infidelity. |
Page 3. This is an important quotation because it is a key moment in the play. Foreshadowing that there are secrets in Sheila and Gerald's relationship. |
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"Please,sir... |
..., an inspector's called." - Edna, the maid, with a timely announcement that shakes up the feeling of the play. |
Page 10. This is an important quotation because it is a key moment in the play as the arrival of the inspector causes secrets to surface in the lives of a rich, influential family. |
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"The girl had been causing trouble... |
...in the works. I was quite justified. " - Mr Birling, on firing Eva Smith after a strike for higher wages. |
Page 17. This is an important quotation because it is a key moment in the play and shows how Mr Birling accepts no responsibility for Eva's death. |
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"So I'm... |
...really responsible?" - Sheila, accepting responsibility for her actions as a member of the younger generation. |
Page 23. This is an important quotation because it's a key moment in the play. Priestley begins to show us the difference between the younger and older members of the Birling family. |
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"Why - you fool - he knows... |
...Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet. You'll see. You'll see. " - Sheila (laughs rather hysterically) to Gerald at the end of Act 1 about his involvement in Eva Smith's death. |
Page 26. This is an important quotation because it's a key moment in the play as it gives us the sense that Inspector Goole is not a normal Inspector. |
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"As if a girl... |
...of that sort would ever refuse money." - Mrs Birling exposing her ignorance about Eva and her prejudice against the lower social classes. Eva did however refuse the money. |
Page 48. This is an important quotation as a key moment in the play because it's a moment of dramatic irony. Mrs Birling's reductive view of the fault of who's responsible for Eva's death will backfire. |
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"One Eva Smith has gone... |
...but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering, chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives." - Inspector Goole |
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