An Inspector Calls

INSPECTOR Supernatural. Sounds like 'ghoul' or ghost - is the inspector a spectre?

INSPECTOR Law - Morality - Guilt - Responsibility Inspector tells everyone they are guilty in some way - even if it's just not thinking about Eva / Daisy.

INSPECTOR Responsibility Inspector tells Mr Birling that he can't just take. He tells him that he has to take care of people, not just himself and his family.

INSPECTOR Time Does the Inspector control time? Has he come back from the future?

INSPECTOR Revolution - Fairness - Responsibility A warning about World War 1 and 2. The audience know that wars are coming. He is also warning everyone that poor people will suffer more and more unless we treat everyone fairly. THE MOST IMPORTANT QUOTE - USE IT IN ALL ESSAYS

INSPECTOR Fairness - Responsibility Eva may have dies but she is just an example of all the people who have no rights, no power. The Inspector tells us we must look after everyone, not just our family and friends.

INSPECTOR Responsibility The Inspector tells us we must look after everyone, not just our family and friends.

MR BIRLING Money - Power - Materialistic (cares about things not people / passions) Mr Birling believes his advice and opinion should be taken on everything because he owns a business. He is very proud to be a capitalist (money maker) and wealthy.

MR BIRLING Lack of awareness Priestley shows the audience how wrong Mr Birling is. If he's wrong about The Titanic, he's wrong about everything else (like looking after only yourself, Socialism and taking care of poorer people).

MR BIRLING Class Mr B shows that he thinks less of working class people, and that he is above them. He thinks "they" behave differently (and worse) than those of his class.

MR BIRLING Money - Regret - Responsibility Mr Birling uses money to demonstrate how much he'd like things to be different. It shows he is money-centred. It shows he takes some responsibility, but only a bit.

MR BIRLING Responsibility Mr B says we only have to look after our family and friends - but nobody else. This is exactly the opposite of what the Inspector says about looking after everyone.

MR BIRLING Class - Money Mr Birling talks about working class as "these people" like they're different to and less than him. He also misses the point that these people have nothing and Eva was only asking for a little extra money.

MR BIRLING Class - Money - Power Mr Birling is expecting to be made a knight or a sir. It shows that he is powerful. However, it also shows that he is worried about his status and knows he's 'below' Lord & Lady Croft.

MR BIRLING Responsibility - Law He is relieved when it appears that the Inspector is not real and the story was made up. He thinks he can just carry on as before (unlike Sheila and Eric) as the "public scandal" was the thing he really cared about.

MR BIRLING Money - Power - Class Mr Birling is terrified there will be a scandal which drags his name through the mud. He cares more about what people think of him than he does a girl's death.

SHEILA Responsibility Near the start... Sheila doesn't see how the Birlings are to blame (but soon changes her mind).

SHEILA Class - Responsibility Sheila starts to see that her father's way of looking at the world is wrong, and the Inspector's is right.

SHEILA Responsibility - Guilt Sheila takes (some) responsibility for Eva's death. ~ Compare her reaction to her mum and dad's ~

SHEILA Responsibility - Guilt Sheila talks about getting Eva sacked. She feels guilty and responsible.

SHEILA Responsibility - Guilt Sheila promises that she's mended her ways.

INSPECTOR (to SHEILA) Power - Responsibility The Inspector shows his anger at Sheila for getting Eva sacked and abusing her power.

SHEILA (to Mrs Birling) Responsibility - Class - Power Sheila knows that the Inspector knows everything and won't allow the Birlings to not take responsibility for Eva's fate.

SHEILA Responsibility Sheila is shocked that the others just want to go back to how it was now they think the Inspector was a fake.