Analyse key quotes

Throughout the play.

The lighting should be Pink and intimate until the inspector arrives

• Possible smug

• Harsh tone

• Change in tone of play

Oh - Gerald' - you've got it - is it the one you wanted me to have

• Expensive ring - money

Go into the drawing room and leave you men

Gender bias women inferior

Billing: I'm delighted about this engagement

This is dramatic irony

Birling: there isn't a chance of war theworlds developing so fast. That it'll make war impossible

• Impossible → adjective cannot happen which the audience knows is incorrect

Birling: unsinkable , absolutely unsinkable 

• Absolutely → adjective

• The audience know this is incorrect despite how sure he is

• Unsinkable → repetition

• Birling is very sure of himself and his beliefs. The audience are aware that in 1912 the titanic sank this important because it makes it clear to the audience that he is unreliable and stupid creating irony