Key quotations — An Inspector Calls — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from An Inspector Calls, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Key quotations: 'a hard-headed, practical man of business', 'unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable', 'But these girls aren't cheap labour', 'Girls of that class', 'Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility.', 'We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.', 'fire and blood and anguish', 'I suppose we're all nice people now', 'the famous younger generation who know it all'.
For Edexcel's essay on this text, link each point to its context and the writer's purpose, which earn as many marks as knowledge of the text (16 of 40); language analysis earns no marks there.