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Summary AQA An Inspector calls quotes + notes (grade 9)
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Literature paper 1 – inspector calls:Written in 1945 set in 1912
Inspector Goole:
- ‘need not a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and
purposefulness’
- ‘he speaks carefully, weightily and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he
addresses before actually speaking’
- ‘two hours ago a young women died in the infirmary. She’d been taken there this afternoon
because she had swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out of course’
- ‘a chain of events’ led to Eva smiths suicide
- ‘its better to ask for the earth than to take it’
- ‘it would do all of us a bit of good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves in the places of
these young women counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedroom’
- ‘and you think women ought to be protected from against unpleasant and disturbing
things?’
- ‘a girl died tonight, a pretty, lively sort of girl, who never did anybody any harm. But she died
in misery and agony – hating life’
- ‘if there’s nothing else we have to share our guilt’
- ‘public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges’
- ‘you had children you must have known what she was feeling and you slammed the door in
her face’
- ‘each of you helped kill her. Remember that. Never forget it’
- ‘their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined
with our lives and what we think say and do’
- ‘we are members of one body. We are responsible for each other’
- ‘if men will not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish’
Mr Birling:
- ‘we may look forward to the time when crofts and Birling are no longer competing but
working together – for lower costs and higher prices’
- ‘we employers are coming together to see that our interests – and the interests of capital –
are properly protected
- ‘you’ll hear some people say war is inevitable – and to that i say fiddlesticks’
- ‘a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own..’
- ‘i cant accept any responsibility’
- ‘if we were all responsible to for everything that happened to everybody...it would be very
awkward wouldn’t it?’
- ‘its my duty to keep labour costs down’
- ‘i don’t like your tone nor the way you’re handling this enquiry’
- ‘why you hysterical young fool’
- ‘I’ve got to cover this up soon as i can’
- ‘there’ll be a public scandal...and who here will suffer for that more than i will?’
, Mrs Birling:
- ‘it was simply a case of gross impertinence’
- ‘that i consider – is a trifle impertinent inspector’
- ‘naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case’
- ‘unlike the other three, i did nothing i am ashamed of or that wont bear investigation’
- ‘go look for the father of the child. It is his responsibility’
- ‘it wasn’t i who had her turned out of her employment – which probably began it all’
- ‘a girl of that sort’
- ‘but i accept no blame for it all’
- ‘he should be made an example of’
- He ought to be dealt with very severely’
Sheila:
- ‘i think its perfect. Now i feel really engaged’
- ‘i cant help thinking about this girl – destroying herself so horribly – and i’ve been so happy
tonight’
- ‘but these girls aren’t cheap labour they are people’
- ‘because i was in a furious temper’
- ‘i caught sight of her smiling at the assistant’
- ‘i know i am to blame – and i’m desperately sorry’
- ‘he’s giving us the rope – so that we’ll hang ourselves’
- ‘and probably between us we killed her’
- ‘you and i aren’t the same people to sat down to dinner here’
- ‘the point is that you don’t seem to have learnt anything’
- ‘it doesnt much matter who it was that made us confess’
- ‘but that wont bring Eva Smith back to life’
- ‘everything we said had happened really had happened. If it didn’t end tragically, then thats
lucky for us. But it might have done’
- ‘you’re pretending everything just as it was before’
- ‘it frightens me the way you talk’
Eric:
- ‘he could have kept her on instead of throwing her out’
- ‘could i have a drink first?’
- ‘i was a bit squiffy’
- ‘i was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty’
- ‘i didn’t even remember – that’s the hellish thing’
- ‘i wasn’t in love with her or anything – but i liked her – she was pretty and a good sport’
- ‘in way she treated me as if i were a kid – though i was nearly as old as she was’
- ‘i insisted on giving her money to keep her going’
- ‘damn you, damn you – you don’t understand anything you never did you never even tried’
- ‘he was our police inspector all right’
- ‘i didn’t notice you standing up to him’
- ‘you’re beginning to pretend that nothings really happened at all. And i cant see it like that’
- ‘i did what i did. And mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her’
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