RESPONSIBILITY IN
AN INSPECTOR CALLS

Mr Birling

Mr Birling would not take any responsibility instead he just sees Eva as a troublemaker who wanted a pay raise.

EDNA QUEEN <3

edna takes responsibility into always having to keep the birling's house clean and tidy, this is her everyday job and she feels the responsibility into how she treats the birling's house, she always wants to please them.

sheila

takes responsibility before mr&mrs birling

He dismisses (down praises) the issue

At the end he is ready to forget everything

shows the generation gap

capitalist - He is tight with money. "The Titanic – she sails next week…and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable."

He is rude to the inspector and believes that he is higher “Perhaps I ought to warn you that that [the Chief Constable is] an old friend of mine. We play golf together.”

accepts responsibility immediately

"it was my own fault"

without deflecting blame onto others

represents the way society can change

Mrs Birling

Mrs Birling didn't take responsibility when she turned Eva Smith away because she used Birling as her last name.

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The inspector

he calls them cranks, dismisses them and opinionated

mystierous

can't accept responsibility, suggesting its a choice

"She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position."

"its better to ask for the earth then to take it"

mr birling puts his business before sheila

socialist views

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priestley's mouthpiece

'' all mixed up like bees in a hive ''

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dresses simply

"I should think not. Eric, I'm absolutely ashamed of you." In telling Eric that she is ashamed of him she shows that she has learned nothing from the Inspector's investigation.

eric

Gerald

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He refuses to accept any responsibility

He feels that he did his part in helping Eva. He does not feel guilt over making her his mistress.

He does not feel that he did anything wrong. He is very happy to forget the whole thing when he thinks the inspector is fake.

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