The Inspector
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- The Inspector
- “cutting through, massively” (p.g.12)
- Doesn’t care for social expectations
- Doesn’t care for social hierarchy
- Believes social
statuses based on wealth are unimportant
- Conveys Priestley’s socialist point of view
- Believes social
statuses based on wealth are unimportant
- Taking control of conversation
- “A chain of events”
(p.g.14)
- Introducing the idea that each one of them contributed to her death even if they cannot understand how
- Socialist idea that everyone should help each other in order to prevent the events from reoccurring
- “it’s better to ask for the earth than to take
it” (p.g.15)
- Capitalism is the
rich taking from the poor who are expected not to argue back, when they do they
are punished
- Abuse of power
- “It isn’t (a free country) if you can’t
go and work somewhere else” (Eric; p.g.15)
- Inspector brings out
the generation gap
- too late for the older characters
- stuck in a rigid capitalist society
- Young characters in the story would be around
the general age the audience were in 1912
- reminder of what they once thought before they got older / what their parents used to think and how wrong they were
- "the Titanic ... unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable" (p.g.7)
- Use of dramatic irony to emphasise
- "In 1940 ... you'll ... have forgotten all these ... silly little war scares" (p.g.7)
- Use of dramatic irony to emphasise
- "In 1940 ... you'll ... have forgotten all these ... silly little war scares" (p.g.7)
- Doesn’t want them to
make the same mistakes as their parents
- I.e. capitalism
- "the Titanic ... unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable" (p.g.7)
- reminder of what they once thought before they got older / what their parents used to think and how wrong they were
- too late for the older characters
- Message for the
audience
- reminder of what they once thought before they got older / what their parents used to think and how wrong they were
- "the Titanic ... unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable" (p.g.7)
- Use of dramatic irony to emphasise
- Use of dramatic irony to emphasise
- Doesn’t want them to
make the same mistakes as their parents
- I.e. capitalism
- "the Titanic ... unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable" (p.g.7)
- reminder of what they once thought before they got older / what their parents used to think and how wrong they were
- Inspector brings out
the generation gap
- Capitalism is the
rich taking from the poor who are expected not to argue back, when they do they
are punished
- “Goole. G. double O-L-E.” (p.g.16)
- Synonym for ghoul
- A ghost from the
future (a bit like ‘the ghost of Christmas yet to come’ from a Christmas carol)
- Trying to get them to act differently for next time
- A ghost from the
future (a bit like ‘the ghost of Christmas yet to come’ from a Christmas carol)
- Synonym for ghoul
- Controls entrances
and exits from the stage
- “If he turns in…”
- Ridiculing birling
- Defying social hierarchy
- Brings humour
- Ridiculing birling
- Strategically enters
and exits for dramatic effect
- When Sheila and Gerald argue
- “If he turns in…”
- “A plain darkish suit of the period” (p.g.11)
- “the period”
- 1946 NOT 1912
- Indicates that the inspector has some foreknowledge of what is about to occur
- Omniscient (all-seeing/all-knowing)
- After WW2 to convey how the world has changed and how beliefs should change with it
- Indicates that the inspector has some foreknowledge of what is about to occur
- 1946 NOT 1912
- “the period”
- “cutting through, massively” (p.g.12)
- Politics
- Quotations
- Foreshadowing
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