An Inspector Calls, Act 1, Setting the scene.
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- Created on: 27-11-17 17:09
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- An Inspector Calls, Act 1, Setting the scene.
- 'It is an evening in spring, 1912'
- A week before the titanic sank.
- Just before the start of WW1
- 'The general effect is substantial and heavily comfortable, but not cosy and home like'
- Rich
- OTT
- Formal
- Not friendly
- Impersonal
- 'The lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inspector arrives and then it should be brighter and harder'
- Seperated
- The Inspector is important
- 'Brighter' = Spotlight
- 'Harder' = Diffcalt
- 'Edna, the parlour maid, is just clearing the table...of dessert plates and champagne glasses... replacing them with a decanter of Port...'
- Rich and Capitalist
- 'His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior'
- 'Husband' = Money Tension?
- "[They] are pleased with themselves".
- Snobby
- Smug
- "Arther Birling is heavy looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech".
- overindulge
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- 'It is an evening in spring, 1912'
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