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Inspector Calls, Key - Coggle Diagram
Inspector Calls
Act 2
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Events
- Sheila gets angry with Gerald for cheating on her with Eva Smith
- Mrs Birling continues to prove her power whilst Sheila and even Gerald try to stop her
- They start to talk about Eric and how he drinks too much - which Mrs B tries to cover up
- Mr Birling enters and asks the inspector to get Eric's questionings "over and done with" so that Eric can go to bed, which is then denied by the inspector
- Mrs Birling enters and immediately shows her power to the Inspector and treats Sheila like a child
- Geral;d tells the story of how he met Eva Smith
- Sheila breaks up with Gerald
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- Mrs Birling is shown the photo of Eva, she then denies that she knows her and is then told of by Sheila and the Inspector for lying
- The Inspector continues to question her until Mr B confesses that she turned down Eva's claim to money at her charity but Mrs B doesn't feel responsible or guilt for her actions
- The inspector tells everyone how Eva was going to have a child. Mrs B says that it was all the fathers fault and still feels no guilt
- Mrs B and Mr B continue to blame the father. Sheila figures it out and pleads them to stop. Eric (the father) enters the stage, then the curtain falls
Themes
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social responsibility
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"Public men, Mr Birling, have responsiblilities as well as privileges"
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Quotes
Characters
Mrs Birling
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"I'm sorry that she should have come to such a horrible end. But I accept no blame for it at all" - Mrs Birling is ignorant to her own arrogance
Mr Birling
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‘the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else’ - Mr Birling's view on society
Sheila
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"a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather exited" - beginning
Gerald
"An attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man around town"
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Eric
"half shay, half assertive"
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the inspector
"[cutting in, with authority] : He must wait his turn."
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"He creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness" - rule of three
Themes
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age
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"[He looks at Gerald, then at Eric, then at Sheila]
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responsibility
"Public men, Mr Birling, have responsiblilities as well as privileges"
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