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An Inspector calls - Key Quotations, Themes - Coggle Diagram
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Themes
Guilt/Shame
Inspector
“We have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt”
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‘I think you did something terribly wrong – and that you’re going to spend the rest of your life regretting it’
Eric
“You lot may be letting yourself out nicely, but I can’t… we did her in all right”
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Responsibility
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Inspector
“Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges”
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Power
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Mrs Birling
"Was it owing to your influence, as the most prominent member of the committee, that help was refused the girl"
Class
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Mrs Birling
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“She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position”
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Gender
Mrs Birling
“When you’re married you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business”
Objectification
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Gerald
"I hate those Hard eyed, dough-faced women"
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Hypocrisy
Shiela
“Mother, I think it was cruel and vile”
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