Zusammenfassung der Ressource
An Inspector Calls
(Key Quotes)
- 'Mummy' 'Daddy' - Sheila (Nouns,
immature, childish at beginning)
- 'Millions of Eva Smiths and
John Smiths' - Inspector
Goole (Represent
working/lower class)
- 'Girl of that class' -
Mrs Birling
(Superior, looking
down)
- 'Not the kind of father a
chap would go to' - Eric
(Doesn't feel close to
father, unable to talk to
him)
- 'Hard-headed man
of business' - Mr
Birling
(Business-minded,
work obsessed)
- 'Mother' 'Father' - Sheila
(Nouns, matured, no
longer relying on parents)
- 'Same port your father gets' -
Mr Birling (Appearances,
wants to be high on social
ladder)
- 'Port, cigar box and
cigarettes' - (Wants to
show off, can afford
luxuries)
- 'You're beginning to pretend
now that nothing's really
happened' - Eric (Name is
clear, ignoring what's
happened)
- 'Unsinkable, absolutely
unsinkable' - Mr Birling
(Dramatic irony, metaphor for
family, doesn't know everything)
- 'Ask Gerald for that ring'
- Mr Birling (Divorce
looked down on,
appearances)
- 'I'd give thousands' - Mr
Birling (To save himself,
his name, not for anyone
else)
- 'And to that I say -
fiddlesticks!' - Mr Birling
(Thinks he knows everything,
always right)
- 'Knighthood' -
Mr Birling (All he
cares about)
- 'You don't seem to
have learnt anything'
- Sheila (Old dog,
new tricks, stuck in
old ways)
- 'Public scandal'
- Mr Birling
(Afraid of
others knowing)
- 'You don't understand
anything. You never
did. You never even
tried' - Eric (No father,
son bond)
- 'We killed her' -
Sheila (Accepts
responsibility)
- 'As if she were an
animal, a thing, not a
person' - Inspector
Goole (How working
class are treated)
- 'Women of the
town?' - Mrs Birling
(Stuck in own
bubble, unaware)
- 'She's here in Brumley too' -
Inspector Goole (Concerns
her, shouldn't be cut out,
isn't child)
- 'You're squiffy' - Sheila
(Childish, drunk, links
to later on)
- 'You don't get drunk' -
Mrs Biring (Doesn't know
son, chooses to ignore)
- 'Fifty pounds' - Mr
Birling (Only cares
about money)
- 'You're the one I
blame' - Mr Birling
(Putting blame on
anyone but him)
- 'Pay it back' - Mr
Birling (Money
over family)
- 'I beg your pardon!' -
Mrs Birling (Never
spoken up to before)
- 'Impression of
massiveness, solidity and
purposefulness' - (Threat
to Birling, intimidating)
- 'Members of one body' -
Inspector Goole (Everyone is
equal, care for everyone)
- '(Cutting in massively)' -
Inspector Goole (Won't let
Birling take over, power over
Birling)
- 'Not married' - Mrs Birling
(Context, pregnant before
marriage looked down on)