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inspector calls: quotes - Coggle Diagram
inspector calls: quotes
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mr.birling
"community and all that nonsense... A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own - and-"
he gets interrupted by the bell which makes a fool of him and shows how he is symbolic of capitalist ideals and the fact he needs to be taught how wrong this is
this establishes priestley's purpose and how the inspector has come to deconstruct and attack the rejection of community and socialism and not just to oppose capitalism
"The germans don't want war.Nobody wants war... And why? There's too much at stake these days. Everything to lose and nothing to gain by war."
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capitalism needs supply and demand to get people buying to make the system work berlin does this by war and priestley blames those in authority for the war which is why birling doesn't learn the lesson about eva smith's death
this is ironic as it's untrue many businessmen at the time made lots of money from ww1 and it was a national scandal hence a socialist government got elected in 1945
this highlights his stupidity as he clearly doesn't understand how business and capitalism works so he is lucky he has a big business as he is so stupid
"unsinkable,absolutely unsinkable"
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"Now look at the pair of them - the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke"
priestley is making a parallel between eva smith's deaths and the millions lost in the world war's this is further shown as the second phone call at the end of the inspector calls represents ww2 and how people didn't learn from ww1 and they get called again as they haven't learnt their lesson
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inspector
"Young women counting their little pennies, in their dingy little back bedrooms" (it would do them good if they could empathise)
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