Mr Birling - Trying to bribe the inspector into not telling anyone what he know as it would damage there social status and how they are seen in society. 

‘look inspector i’d give thousands- yes thousands’

Mr Birling-talking about combining Gerald’s family company and Mr Burlingame company even though it would only really be if it Mr Birling and help him grow in society. 

‘work together, for lower costs and higher prices’ 

Mr Birling- talking about the titanic and how it wouldn’t sink even though the modern audience would have known that it sank so Priestly would have done this to show how capitalist were so pompous. 

‘Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’. 

Mr Birling-his capitalist views make him believe that he is better than everyone else and his actions don’t have any consequences. he was also an arrogant man so he didn’t want to believe that he had taken part in killing this girl.

‘i can’t accept any responsibility’

Mrs Birling- her capatalist views made her believe that she was higher up than people on the lower classes and that you should be treated as your class and not that everyone should be treated equally.

Mrs Birling- the same as Mr Birling and is refusing to take any responsibility for anything she has done even though she also took responsibility killing the girl. 

‘i’ve done nothing wrong-and you know it’ 

Mrs birling-showing that she all thinks it’s fake and humorous. Also she is not taking ot as seriously as she should.

‘in the morning they’ll be as amused as we are’

shelia- she was fighting against her father taking in more socialist views in her thinking and was starting to believe that everyone was equal. 

‘But these aren’t cheap labour there people’

Sheila- she’s starting to regret the things she did and looking out for the people around her and not acting as pompous as her father. 

Shelia- talking to Gerald after she found out everything that happened between him and daisy when he was supposed to be working. 

‘you and i aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here’

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