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An Inspector Calls - Coggle Diagram
Social Responsibility
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"We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they well be taught it in fire and bloody and anguish." - Inspector Goole
Older generation don't take responsibility, younger generation does
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Characters
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Mr Birling
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Irony
Just because the kaiser makes a speech or two, or a few German officers have too much to drink and begin taking nonsense, you'll hear some people say that war's inevitable. And to that I say – fiddlesticks! The Germans don't want war. Nobody wants war, except some half-civilized folks in the Balkans. And why? There's too much at stake these days. Everything to lose and nothing to gain by war.
By the time that this play was first being peformed, some of the first audiences had just come out of two world wars
Why, a friend of mine went over this new liner last week – the titanic – she sails next week – forty-six thousand eight hundred tons – new york in five days – and every luxury – and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.
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Eric has more socialist views compared to Birling, even from the start of the play
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Tries to assert his dominance over, but soon realises it's failing
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Determined to avoid responsibility for actions against ES and other employees and is unwavering in his protection of his family
"Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech"
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