Here are the quotes I used in my English Literature GCSE exam which helped me to achieve a Grade 9. The quotes are colour coded for each character and can show you which key themes they relate to in a visually-appealing table.
I hope this helps!
Kelly :)
Power
Sybil Birling Eva Smith
Sheila Birling Stage directions
Act 1
1. Stage directions: ‘pink and intimate’ then ‘brighter and harder’ 1 X X X X X X X X X X X X
2. Arthur Birling: ‘working together – lower costs and higher prices’ 4 x X X X X X
Gerald: ‘Hear, hear!’
3. Sheila to Gerald: ‘is it the one you wanted me to have?’ Sybil Birling: 4 X X X X X
‘Be careful with it.’
4. Arthur Birling: ‘Titanic… unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’ 7 X X X
5. Arthur Birling to Eric: ‘clothes mean something quite different to a 9 X X
woman.’
6. Arthur Birling: ‘all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community 10 X X X
and all that nonsense.’
7. Stage directions: ‘sharp ring of a door bell’ 10 X X X X X X X X X X X X
8. Arthur Birling to Inspector Goole: ‘alderman’ ‘Lord Mayor’ ‘I know the 11 X X X X X
Brumley police officers.’
9. Inspector Goole to Birling: ‘swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. 11 X X X
Burnt her insides out, of course.’
10. Inspector Goole: ‘a chain of events,’ 14 X X X X X X X X
11. Birling: ‘soon be asking for the earth’ Inspector Goole: ‘better to ask 15 X X X X X X
for the earth than to take it’
12. Eric to Birling: ‘why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for 16 X X X X X X X
the highest possible prices.’
13. Sheila: ‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people.’ 19 X X X X X
14. Inspector Goole showing Sheila the photo: Stage directions: ‘He 21 X X X X
moves nearer a light’
15. Sheila: ‘very pretty… big dark eyes… if she’d been some miserable 24 X X X X X X X
plain little creature, I don’t suppose I’d have done it’
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