Inspector Goole Profile
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- Created on: 29-10-19 16:34
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- Inspector Goole
- "One person and one line of enquiry at a time."
- Allows focus on each character during their interrogation
- Audience has time to process for full emphasis of each characters' actions
- Metaphor for how no one person is more important than any other
- Class does not give the Birlings the power to change order
- Only Goole has that power - suggests nonhuman background
- Class does not give the Birlings the power to change order
- Demonstrates the mostly linear structure of the play
- Sybil and Eric are the only exceptions
- Allows focus on each character during their interrogation
- "Never forget it." [He looks at each one of them carefully.]
- A warning - he will punish them if he has to
- Imperative verb "never" shows Goole's dominance over the situation
- Undermines Arthur
- Defines Goole as imposing, interrogating, and intimidating
- Stage direction "looks" shows he is putting pressure on the characters
- Goole is strong and willing to dominate other characters
- Adverb "carefully" builds tension onstage as it shows he will expose all their sins
- Apathetic at times - Goole is imperfect
- "Public men have responsibil-ities as well as privileges."
- Priestley uses Goole as a mouthpiece to criticise how the rich and powerful neglect their duties to the poor
- Reflects Priestley's socialist views
- Frank criticism of Arthur's carelessness and dismissive attitude towards others
- Undermines Arthur
- Priestley uses Goole as a mouthpiece to criticise how the rich and powerful neglect their duties to the poor
- "We don't live alone." + "We are all members of one body." + "We are responsible for each other."
- Highlights their collective social responsibility
- Demonstrates which characters have undergone character development + taken on Goole's message
- Collective pronoun "we" emphasises how society should support everybody, not just the rich
- Emphasises Priestley's socialist views
- Metaphor comparing society to the human body
- Each social group is like an organ
- Highlights their collective social responsibility
- "One person and one line of enquiry at a time."
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