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37 Cards in this Set
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The general effect is substantial and heavily comfortable, but not cosy and homelike. |
Act 1 Description of house |
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The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder |
Act 1 Stage directions of lighting |
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ARTHUR BIRLING is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech |
Act 1 First description of Mr. B |
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His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior. |
Act 1 First description of Mrs. B |
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SHEILA is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited. |
Act 1 First description of Sheila |
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GERALD CROFT is an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town. |
Act 1 First description of Gerald Croft |
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ERIC is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive. |
Act 1 First description of Eric |
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'Mummy' 'Daddy' |
Act 1 Sheila referring to her mother/father |
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'your engagement to Sheila means a tremendous lot to me. She'll make you happy and I'm sure she'll make you happy. You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted.' |
Act 1 Mr Birling speaking to Gerald |
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'Oh - Gerald - you've got it - is it the one you wanted me to have?' |
Act 1 Sheila speaking to Gerald about the engagement ring he's bought her |
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'I say there isn't a chance of war' |
Act 1 Mr Birling speaking about how WW1 won't happen |
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'and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.' |
Act 1 Mr Birling speaking about the Titanic and it's maiden voyage |
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'and I tell you, by that time you'll be living in a world that'll have forgotten about all these Capital versus Labour agitations' |
Act 1 Mr Birling speaking about the future (1940) of the government. After the play is set Britain gets it's first Labour government. |
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'hardheaded practical businessmen men' |
Act 1 How Mr Birling refers to himself (repetition) |
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'You seem to be a nice well-behaved family-' |
Act 1 Gerald speaking to Mr Birling about their family |
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'Not just something to wear - and not only something to make them look prettier - but - well, a sort of sign or token of their self-respect.' |
Act 1 Mr Birling speaking about clothes for women |
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'a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too, of course' |
Act 1 Mr Birling |
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'you'd think everybody has to look after everyone else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense.' |
Act 1 Mr Birling |
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The INSPECTOR need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness. |
Act 1 First description of Inspector Goole pt1 |
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He is a man in his fifties, dresses in plain darkish suit of the period. He speaks carefully, weightily, and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before actually speaking. |
Act 1 First description of Inspector Goole |
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'Yes, she was in great agony.' |
Act 1 Inspector Goole speaking of Eva Smiths suicide |
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'Still, I can't accept any responsibility for everything that happened to everybody we'd had to do with' |
Act 1 Mr Birling talking about how he isn't responsible for the suicide |
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'She was a lively good-looking girl - country bred,' |
Act 1 Mr Birling describing Eva Smith |
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'It's a free country, I told them.' |
Act 1 Mr Birling reciting what he told the workers that went on strike (refusing to increase wages) |
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'She had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go.' |
Act 1 Mr Birling speaking about Eva Smith |
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'But after all it's better to ask for the earth than to take it.' |
Act 1 Inspector Goole |
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'Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices. And I don't see why she should had been sacked just because she'd a bit more spirit than the others. You said yourself she was a good worker. I'd have let her stay.' |
Act 1 Eric standing up to his fathers views |
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'I can't help thinking about thinking about this girl - destroying herself so horribly - and I've been do happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn't told me' |
Act 1 Sheila Birling upon finding out about the suicide of Eva Smith |
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'Well, of course, if I'd known that earlier, I wouldn't have called you officious and talked about reporting you' |
Act 1 Mr Birling upon finding out the Inspector isn't there for just him |
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'But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people' |
Act 1 Sheila Birling |
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'A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody's made of it.' |
Act 1 Inspector speaking about Eva's suicide |
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'Sometimes there isn't as much difference as you think. Often, if it was left to me, I wouldn't know where to draw the line.' |
Act 1 Inspector speaking about the line between citizens and criminals (morals) |
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'I can't accept any responsibility' |
Act 1 Mr Birling about Eva's suicide and him firing her |
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'So I'm really responsible?' |
Act 1 Sheila accepting fault/acknowledging that she played a role in Eva's suicide |
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(startled) 'What?' |
Act 1 Gerald's reaction to Inspector Goole saying the name Daisy Renton |
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(laughs rather hysterically) ' Why - you fool - he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet.' |
Act 1 Sheila speaking to Gerald about the fact that the Inspector probably knows about some relationship between him and Daisy Renton. |
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'... what happened to her then may have determined what happened to her afterwards, and what happened afterwards may have driven her to suicide. A chain of events.' |
Act 1 Inspector Goole |