Act 1 2 3
I It should be brighter and harder We’ll see Mrs. Birling You can’t even say “I’m sorry, Eva Smith”
n He creates at once and impression of massiveness, solidity A chain of events Don;t stammer and yammer at me, man
s and purposefulness Millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John
If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our
p It’s my duty to ask questions Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears,
e guilt
It’s too late, she’s dead their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with
c Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities
I don't play golf our lives … We don’t live alone, We are members of one body,
t as well as privileges
o
But after all it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it If men will not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in fire
r Well? and blood and anguish
M How do you get on with our Chief Constable, Colonel roberts? The press may easily take it up I’d give thousands, yes thousands
r A sort of sign or token of their self-respect Angrily A downright public scandal
A very good chance of a knighthood
Triumphantly
B Rather provincial in his speech
Means a tremendous lot - for lower costs and higher prices Imitating the Inspector in his final speech, You all
The Germans don’t want war. Everything to lose and nothing to helped kill the girl, pointing at sheila and eric, and
gain by war
Just let me finish Eric
laughing
We hard headed practical business men The famous younger generation who know it all.
It’s my duty to keep labour costs down, And they can’t even take a joke
If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d
soon be asking for the earth
M Reproachfully- Arthur you’re not supposed to say And now’s the time you choose to tell me Didn’t I say I couldn’t imagine a real police
r such things. He’s only a boy
I did nothing I’m ashamed of or that won’t bear inspector talking like that to us?
s
Rather cold woman and her husband’s social investigation In the morning they’ll be as amused as we are
B superior
We’ve done a great deal of useful work in helping
You’ll have to get used to that, just as I had deserving cases
Simply a piece of gross impertinence… that
prejudiced me against her case.
Same easy tone
Girls of that class
She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples
that were simply absurd in a girl in her position
As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money
I consider I did my duty
I don’t believe it I won’t believe it
I It should be brighter and harder We’ll see Mrs. Birling You can’t even say “I’m sorry, Eva Smith”
n He creates at once and impression of massiveness, solidity A chain of events Don;t stammer and yammer at me, man
s and purposefulness Millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John
If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our
p It’s my duty to ask questions Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears,
e guilt
It’s too late, she’s dead their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with
c Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities
I don't play golf our lives … We don’t live alone, We are members of one body,
t as well as privileges
o
But after all it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it If men will not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in fire
r Well? and blood and anguish
M How do you get on with our Chief Constable, Colonel roberts? The press may easily take it up I’d give thousands, yes thousands
r A sort of sign or token of their self-respect Angrily A downright public scandal
A very good chance of a knighthood
Triumphantly
B Rather provincial in his speech
Means a tremendous lot - for lower costs and higher prices Imitating the Inspector in his final speech, You all
The Germans don’t want war. Everything to lose and nothing to helped kill the girl, pointing at sheila and eric, and
gain by war
Just let me finish Eric
laughing
We hard headed practical business men The famous younger generation who know it all.
It’s my duty to keep labour costs down, And they can’t even take a joke
If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d
soon be asking for the earth
M Reproachfully- Arthur you’re not supposed to say And now’s the time you choose to tell me Didn’t I say I couldn’t imagine a real police
r such things. He’s only a boy
I did nothing I’m ashamed of or that won’t bear inspector talking like that to us?
s
Rather cold woman and her husband’s social investigation In the morning they’ll be as amused as we are
B superior
We’ve done a great deal of useful work in helping
You’ll have to get used to that, just as I had deserving cases
Simply a piece of gross impertinence… that
prejudiced me against her case.
Same easy tone
Girls of that class
She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples
that were simply absurd in a girl in her position
As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money
I consider I did my duty
I don’t believe it I won’t believe it
