Summary GCSE English Literature - An Inpsector Calls Quotation Bank

An Inspector Calls




Age versus Youth
Inspector Goole
Inspector Goole




Responsibility
Gerald Croft




Page Number




Arthur Birling




Sheila Birling

Gerald Croft
Sybil Birling




Social Class
Eric Birling

Eva Smith




Gender
Arthur Birling Eric Birling




Power
Sybil Birling Eva Smith
Sheila Birling Stage directions


Act 1
1. Stage directions: ‘pink and intimate’ then ‘brighter and harder’ 1 X X X X X X X X X X X X
2. Arthur Birling: ‘working together – lower costs and higher prices’ 4 x X X X X X
Gerald: ‘Hear, hear!’
3. Sheila to Gerald: ‘is it the one you wanted me to have?’ Sybil Birling: 4 X X X X X
‘Be careful with it.’
4. Arthur Birling: ‘Titanic… unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’ 7 X X X
5. Arthur Birling to Eric: ‘clothes mean something quite different to a 9 X X
woman.’
6. Arthur Birling: ‘all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community 10 X X X
and all that nonsense.’
7. Stage directions: ‘sharp ring of a door bell’ 10 X X X X X X X X X X X X
8. Arthur Birling to Inspector Goole: ‘alderman’ ‘Lord Mayor’ ‘I know the 11 X X X X X
Brumley police officers.’
9. Inspector Goole to Birling: ‘swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. 11 X X X
Burnt her insides out, of course.’
10. Inspector Goole: ‘a chain of events,’ 14 X X X X X X X X
11. Birling: ‘soon be asking for the earth’ Inspector Goole: ‘better to ask 15 X X X X X X
for the earth than to take it’
12. Eric to Birling: ‘why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for 16 X X X X X X X
the highest possible prices.’
13. Sheila: ‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people.’ 19 X X X X X
14. Inspector Goole showing Sheila the photo: Stage directions: ‘He 21 X X X X
moves nearer a light’
15. Sheila: ‘very pretty… big dark eyes… if she’d been some miserable 24 X X X X X X X
plain little creature, I don’t suppose I’d have done it’