Inspector Goole character profile GCSE
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- Created on: 03-04-13 11:48
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- The Inspector
- Arrives unexpectedly and to ask questions
- An outsider with little in common to the Birlings - 'The rude way he spoke to Mr Birling and me - it was quite extraordinary'
- Delivers a speech on social responsibility- 'we don't live alone. We are members of one body'
- Described as a man who is authoritive and imposing, his presence fills the room. - 'All in good time'
- Delivers a speech on social responsibility- 'we don't live alone. We are members of one body'
- An outsider with little in common to the Birlings - 'The rude way he spoke to Mr Birling and me - it was quite extraordinary'
- The driving force of the play
- Starts with the summary of the events - 'suicide of course'
- Bluntly states information when characters try and skirt around information - 'And the you decided to keep her - as your mistress?'
- Reveals new information which heightens the drama - 'that this girl was going to have a child
- The world calling is ominous
- Sounds casual
- The phrasing is deceptive as he appears casual and spontaneous though is single minded and calculating. He 'calls' the shots.
- The calling of an inspector may refer to the one who rings the telephone at the end of the play
- Sounds casual
- He uses emotive and personal language
- Eva is describe as 'lively' and 'pretty' which create sympathy as it is an attractive image
- Sympathy is strengthened with blunt and harsh words - 'with a burnt out inside on s slab'
- Sheila is 'rather distressed' by his language
- Eva is describe as 'lively' and 'pretty' which create sympathy as it is an attractive image
- Uses shock tactics
- Answers his own questions if he doesn't like others
- He follows up questions with more questions until he has pieced together a confession - he forces them to answer him
- he is prepared to ask personal questions - to Gerald 'Were you in love with her?'
- He follows up questions with more questions until he has pieced together a confession - he forces them to answer him
- Answers his own questions if he doesn't like others
- Makes a good entrance and exit
- The timing is crucial and the inspector arrives just to contradict Mr Birling's point
- Leaving Gerald and Sheila alone to seperate them makes it easier to get a confession
- The language gets more dramatic which builds on tension in the final scene
- At the end in the silence- both the audience and the characters are left, ' silent, subdued and wondering'
- The timing is crucial and the inspector arrives just to contradict Mr Birling's point
- Who is inspector Goole?
- The diary could be a bluff to stop anyone asking him questions
- Why he has so much knowledge and power is never fully explained - he could be a ghost, or represent a spirit of a religious or moral figure like in medieval morality plays
- In a way he represents the courts and is just tracking down the truth
- When they find he is not a police officer they believe that means he has no authority to remind them of wrongs they commited
- He is confident which gives him control - he never allows himself to become confused
- His air of authority makes what he says sound more important
- From a different world than the Birlings
- Doesn't play golf or impressed by their public profile
- he talks about taboo subjects like sex and politics
- He doesn't follow the normal middle class etiquette which was the norm
- Appears to not belong to any class, he doesn't recognise it and treats everyone the same
- Arrives unexpectedly and to ask questions
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