An Inspector Calls quotes Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
A man has to mind his own business and look after his own - ✔✔Mr Birling patriarchy
selfish capitalism, monsyllables - reflect how litle he has thought about what he is
saying and the effects of this attitude.
It's my duty to keep labour costs down - ✔✔Mr Birling capitalism - money over dead
woman
But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people - ✔✔Sheila social responsibility
younger generation challenge father
It's better to ask for the earth than to take it - ✔✔Inspector, take implies Mr B stealing
from his workers
'We are members of one body.' - ✔✔Inspector inclusive pronouns religious?
Fire and blood and anguish - ✔✔Inspector destruction of society will be taught lesson
through war
'Germans don't want war.' titanic won't sink - ✔✔Mr Birling dramatic irony upper class
are out of touch
the doorbell rings - ✔✔Mr Birlings ideology interuptted by the inspector with hsi ideas
on social responsibility, equality, class etc, Inspector is OMNISCIENT - goole =
supernatural.
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, I didn't install her there so that I could make love to her - ✔✔Gerald excuses himself no
responsibility uses his patriarchy class
You couldn't have done anything else - ✔✔Gerald agrees with Mr B about sacking Eva
for asking for a pay rise
"All right. I knew her. Let's leave it at that." - ✔✔Gerald admits he lied about knowing
Daisy/Eva There are many more lies, he's a younger Mr B
'a pretty girl in her early 20s, very pleased with life and rather excited' - ✔✔Sheila, stage
directions, start of play she is childish, naïve, spoilt
Fire and blood and anguish - ✔✔inspector and SHEILA - teaching her family about
social responsibility. Omnicscient inspecptor - he knows all in contrast to Mr B
'unsinkable'
'It frightens me the way you talk.' - ✔✔Sheila, end of play, stands up to and teaches her
family about socialism
'all mixed up together like bees in a hive' - ✔✔Mr Birling means it as an insult, but bees
in a hive work together for common good - like socialism
Fairy Prince. You must have adored it, Gerald - ✔✔Sheila to upper class Gerald,
metaphor he pretends he wanted to help but.he had all the power/money and used it to
get what he wanted from Eva. Sheila sees through his actions.
'everything is alright now Sheila, what about this ring?' - ✔✔Gerald made a call to make
sure the Inspector wasn't real.
'Firstly I blame the women- secondly I blame the father' - ✔✔Mrs B, dramatic Irony,
contradictory, judgmental,
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
A man has to mind his own business and look after his own - ✔✔Mr Birling patriarchy
selfish capitalism, monsyllables - reflect how litle he has thought about what he is
saying and the effects of this attitude.
It's my duty to keep labour costs down - ✔✔Mr Birling capitalism - money over dead
woman
But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people - ✔✔Sheila social responsibility
younger generation challenge father
It's better to ask for the earth than to take it - ✔✔Inspector, take implies Mr B stealing
from his workers
'We are members of one body.' - ✔✔Inspector inclusive pronouns religious?
Fire and blood and anguish - ✔✔Inspector destruction of society will be taught lesson
through war
'Germans don't want war.' titanic won't sink - ✔✔Mr Birling dramatic irony upper class
are out of touch
the doorbell rings - ✔✔Mr Birlings ideology interuptted by the inspector with hsi ideas
on social responsibility, equality, class etc, Inspector is OMNISCIENT - goole =
supernatural.
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, I didn't install her there so that I could make love to her - ✔✔Gerald excuses himself no
responsibility uses his patriarchy class
You couldn't have done anything else - ✔✔Gerald agrees with Mr B about sacking Eva
for asking for a pay rise
"All right. I knew her. Let's leave it at that." - ✔✔Gerald admits he lied about knowing
Daisy/Eva There are many more lies, he's a younger Mr B
'a pretty girl in her early 20s, very pleased with life and rather excited' - ✔✔Sheila, stage
directions, start of play she is childish, naïve, spoilt
Fire and blood and anguish - ✔✔inspector and SHEILA - teaching her family about
social responsibility. Omnicscient inspecptor - he knows all in contrast to Mr B
'unsinkable'
'It frightens me the way you talk.' - ✔✔Sheila, end of play, stands up to and teaches her
family about socialism
'all mixed up together like bees in a hive' - ✔✔Mr Birling means it as an insult, but bees
in a hive work together for common good - like socialism
Fairy Prince. You must have adored it, Gerald - ✔✔Sheila to upper class Gerald,
metaphor he pretends he wanted to help but.he had all the power/money and used it to
get what he wanted from Eva. Sheila sees through his actions.
'everything is alright now Sheila, what about this ring?' - ✔✔Gerald made a call to make
sure the Inspector wasn't real.
'Firstly I blame the women- secondly I blame the father' - ✔✔Mrs B, dramatic Irony,
contradictory, judgmental,
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