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Inspector Goole

• We don't live alone. We are members of one body.
  We are responsible for each other. And I tell you
  that the time will soon come when, if men will
  not learn that lesson, then they will be taught
  it in fire and blood and anguish.

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Who is Inspector Goole?

• Goole Geist spirit in death.
• Inspector Goole isnt a real inspector more
  something like god because he makes them all feel
  guilty.
• His manners are quite extraordinary, rude and
  assertive.
• One of the main reasons for his visit to the
  Birling family is to make them realise what
  responsibilities they have and that their
  behaviour has an influence on others.
• His views are directly opposite to those of Mr.
  Birling.

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About Inspector Goole

• The inspector is a very straight forward, no
  - nonsense kind of person who doesn't get
  flattered easily nor is his focus easily shifted.
  
• Inspector Goole is a mysterious interrogator who
  introduces himself as a police inspector. In Act
  III the characters discover that he is not a
  police inspector at all even if he did, indeed,
  inspect them.
• According to the stage directions
• The inspector need not be a big man but he
  creates at
• once an impression of massiveness,
  solidity and
• purposefulness. He is a man in his fifties,
  dressed in a plain
• darkish suit of the period. He speaks
  carefully, weightily, and
• has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at
  the person he
• addresses before actually speaking.

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Quotes

• But after all, it is better to ask for the
  world than to take it.
• Public men, Mr. Birling, have
  responsibilities as well as privileges.
• We don't live alone. We are members of one
  body. We are responsible for each other. And I
  tell you that the time will soon come when, if
  men will not learn that lesson, then they will be
  taught it in fire and blood and anguish.
• By Nathan Graeme