An Inspector Calls._1_1

Sheila Birling.
1. 'squiffy' colloquical language& shows eric is drunk.
2. She is described at the start as "a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited."
3. we know that she has had suspicions about Gerald when she mentions "last summer, when you never came near me." Does this suggest that she is not as naive and shallow as she first appears
4. "im sorry daddy" "did you dad?"
5. "but these girls aren't cheap labour- they're people"
6. She was very pretty and looked like she could take care of herself.’She was very pretty and looked like she could take care of herself.’
7. I know I’mto blame and I’mdesperately sorry
8. You were the wonderfulfairy prince. Youmust have enjoyed it,Gerald
Arthur Birling
1. "I speak as a hard-headed business man" shows pride in his success.
2. '"unsinkable absolutely unsinkable'" "The Germans don’t want war" dramatic irony the audience knows something the character doesn't.
3. He shows off about the port to Gerald, "it's exactly the same port your father gets." He is proud that he is likely to be knighted, as that would move him even higher in social circles.
4. "she’d had a lotto say – far too much – so she had to go of course."
5. "The whole story’s just a lot of moonshine."
6. He believes that socialist ideas that stress the importance of the community are "nonsense" and that "a man has to make his own way."
7. "its my duty to keep labour costs down"
Sybil Birling
1. 'Girls of that class' prejudice. hyora thinks she is socially and morally superior. emphasis on the word 'that' this shows her disgust in the working class.
2. She sees Sheila and Eric still as "children" and speaks patronisingly to them.
3. described at the start as "about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior."
4. she was "prejudiced" against the girl who applied to her committee for help and saw it as her "duty" to refuse to help her. Her narrow sense of morality dictates that the father of a child should be responsible for its welfare, regardless of circumstances
5. she refuses to believe that she did anything wrong and doesn't accept responsibility for her part in Eva's death.
6. ‘We’ve done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving causes.’
7. ‘I did nothing I’m ashamed of.’
8. I blame the young man.He ought to be dealt with very severely.
9. you not suppoused to say such things
Eric Birling
1. 'squiffy' colloquical language& shows he is drunk.
2. 'Your not the kind of father a chap can go to when hes in trouble. not only hard headed towards the working calls but also his family. more concerned to cover up his wrong doings so he can avoid a social scandal. He has abandoned his duties as a father.
3. ‘You killed her – and the child she’d have had too –my child’
4. ‘we helped to kill her.’
5. in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
6. Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?
Gerald Croft
1. ‘My God!...I’ve suddenly realized – taken it in properly – that she’d dead!’
2. ‘I didn’tinstall herthere so I couldmake love to her
3. He is described as "an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred man-about-town."
4. He is an aristocrat - the son of Lord and Lady Croft. We realise that they are not over-impressed by Gerald's engagement to Sheila because they declined the invitation to the dinner.
5. He seems to throw his energies into "protecting" himself rather than "changing" himself (unlike Sheila).
6. At the end of the play, he has not changed. He has not gained a new sense of social responsibility, which is why Sheila (who has) is unsure whether to take back the engagement ring.
The Inspector
1. when Mrs B says "you seem to have made a great impression on this child , inspector" he says "we often do on the young ones"
2. an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness. He is a man in his fifties, dressed in a plain darkish suit. He speaks carefully, weightily, and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before actually speaking.
3. His method is to confront a suspect with a piece of information and then make them talk - or, as Sheila puts it, "he's giving us the rope - so that we'll hang ourselves."
4. He knows things are going to happen - He says "I'm waiting...To do my duty"
5. warns them of the "fire and blood and anguish" that will result if they do not pay attention to what he has taught them

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