An Inspector Calls Essay Plans

Sheila

1: 'mummy'

2: 'wish you hadn't told me'

3: 'it was my own fault'

4: 'she was pretty ... didnt make it any better'

'hes giving us the ropes so that we will hang ourselves'

5: 'between us we drove that girl to suicide'

Eric

1: 'guffaws at his parents'

2: 'look here ive had enough of this'

3: 'why shouldn't they try for higher wages'

4: 'you know don't you'

5: 'You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but I can't. Nor can mother. We did her in all right.'

Mr Birling

1: 'unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable'

2: 'higher prices and lower costs'

3: 'I refused of course'

4: 'I was almost certain for knighthood'

5: '[pointing at Eri and Sheila laughing]

Gerald

1: 'I insist upon being one of the family now'

2: 'I know we'd have done the same thing'

3: 'I don't come into this suicide business'

4: 'I didn't ask for anything in return'

5: 'Everything's all right now, Sheila. What about this ring?'

Inspector

1: Inspector arrives abruptly, disrupting AB's speech

2: 'burnt her insides out' (villainises Birlings)

3: 'I don't play golf'

4: 'each of you helped to kill her'

5: ' we are all part of one body'

6: the call about another inspector - cyclical structure

Mrs Birling

1: 'I think Sheila and I should go to the drawing room

2: 'girls of that class'

3: 'you look tired Sheila you ought to go to bed'

4: 'I accept no blame for it at all'

5: 'Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility'

Class

1: 'I speak as a hard-headed business man' MR B

2: 'If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth' MR B

3: 'Girls of that class' MRS B

4: 'We are members of one body' INSPECTOR

5: 'It frightens me the way you talk' SHEILA

Prejudice

1: 'I think Sheila and I had better go into the drawing-room and leave you men' MRS B

2: 'She had a lot to say—far too much—so she had to go' MR B

3: 'I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women' GERALD

4: 'As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!' MRS B

5: 'You don't seem to have learnt anything' SHEILA

Capitalism

1: 'A man has to make his own way' MR B

2: 'We were paying the usual rates and if they didn't like those rates, they could go and work somewhere else' MR B

3: 'I know we'd have done the same thing' GERALD

4: 'Public men, Mr. Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges' INSPECTOR

5: 'The money's not the important thing' ERIC

Socialism

1: 'We may look forward to a time when Crofts and Birlings are working together' MR B

2: 'But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people' SHEILA

3: 'Public men, Mr. Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges' INSPECTOR

4: 'It's what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters' ERIC

5: 'We are members of one body' INSPECTOR

Consequence

1: 'She'd had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go' MR B

2: 'I didn't ask for anything in return' GERALD

3: 'We are responsible for each other' INSPECTOR

4: 'It frightens me the way you talk' SHEILA'

5: 'That was the police. A girl has just died' MR B

Family

1: 'You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble' ERIC

2: 'I think Sheila and I had better go into the drawing-room' MRS B

3: 'Look, Inspector—I'd give thousands—yes, thousands—' MR B

4: 'We often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable' INSPECTOR

5: 'You don't seem to have learnt anything' SHEILA

Injustice

1: 'If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth' MR B

2: 'As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!' MRS B

3: 'Public men, Mr. Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges' INSPECTOR

4: 'But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people' SHEILA

5: 'Each of you helped to kill her' INSPECTOR

'fact that eric doesnt get punished'

Supernatural

1: '

Remorse

1: 'I know I'm to blame—and I'm desperately sorry' SHEILA

2: 'You're beginning to pretend that nothing's happened at all' SHEILA

3: 'I did nothing I'm ashamed of' MRS BIRLING

4: 'My God—I'm not likely to forget' ERIC

5: 'There's every excuse for what both your mother and I did' MR B

Responsibility

1: 'A man has to make his own way' MR BIRLING

2: 'We are responsible for each other' INSPECTOR

3: 'Each of you helped to kill her' INSPECTOR

4: 'The money's not the important thing' ERIC

5: 'It frightens me the way you talk' SHEILA

Redemption

1: 'But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people' SHEILA

2: 'I accept no blame for it at all' MRS BIRLING

3: 'I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty' ERIC

4: 'There's every excuse for what your mother and I did' MR B

5: 'It frightens me the way you talk' SHEILA

Women

1: 'i think we should go to the drawing room Sheila'

2: 'mummy'

'she was out of work for the next 2 months, after that she was desperate' 'no money no job no friends' 'she was going to have a child'

3: 'but these girls aren't cheap labor they're people'

'ill never do it again to anybody'

4: 'girl of that class'

'I did nothing I was ashamed of'

5: 'this ring'

'mum'

'we are members of one body'

'if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught in fire and in blood and anguish'