Act 3 — An Inspector Calls — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Act 3
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Eric's confession, the Inspector's final speech, the family's reactions and the final telephone call.
Key quotations: 'You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble', 'you killed her', 'One Eva Smith has gone', 'We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.', 'fire and blood and anguish', 'I'd give thousands', 'I suppose we're all nice people now', 'It frightens me the way you talk', 'the famous younger generation who know it all', 'guiltily and dumbfounded'.
The false ending, the final telephone call, and different readings of who the Inspector is.
Eduqas's essay on this text marks your response and your analysis of language, form and structure, not context: use context only where it helps an interpretation, and treat the printed extract as a starting point for an essay on the whole play.
