GCSE English - An Inspector Calls Revision Question Cards: ideal for the 2024 and 2025 exams (CGP GCSE English Literature Cards)

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You mustn't try to build up a wall between us and that girl." Sheila realises that there is no difference between her and Eva Smith, so building up a wall that will be broken down by the inspector is pointless They stayed together and he tells Sheila that he was in a relationship. Sheila admires his honesty, however. After a few weeks, Daisy knew that good times were coming to an end:

Repetition of the word 'did'. Shows how the Inspector, and Priestly, can except past actions have occurred and you cannot change them now. However it is these actions that they 'did' that will allow them to reflect and change their moral viewpoint. The world is changing, what people 'did' believe in before the war has adapted, and whilst what they 'did' was wrong it could be excusable as originally these were the excepted actions and attributes of the upper class. Well, it's my duty to keep labour costs down." - Birling's primary goal is profit. He doesn't care about his workers, which eventually leads to his involvement with Eva Smith.As she finds out it is Eric who was "Silly and wild and drinking too much" (showing her disconnect from Eric), she starts to break down, possibly giving the reader some sympathy for her: In today's talk I shall analyse a segment of 40 lines from An Inspector Calls. These lines appear from Mrs Birling's quote (pg. 200) “I'm sorry she c... There are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us." - There are lots of others just like Eva

After this she tells the inspector that the one to blame is the father of the child (not knowing it is Eric): Because your not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble." - Eric. -The quote from Eric, his own son, highlights how Birling is closed off from his own children, and is stubborn in his own beliefs.

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This is Eric's first piece of genuine sympathy for Eva, and Priestley starts to show the audience it is an allegory; a story with a double meaning. On the surface it is about the death of a worker that they have all been connected too, but underneath it is about the realisation of moral responsibilities.