An Inspector Calls: Themes explored
- Created by: Ruby Foster
- Created on: 06-04-13 21:00
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- Themes Explored
- Communication and the individual
- After was, people had enough of hardship
- New sense of community
- Priestly 'Stop thinking of property and power - think of community and creation'
- Society
- Equality
- Individual
- Respectably and Hypocrisy
- Status
- Appearance
- Upper class ignored prostitution
- Priestly exposed the hypocrisy of the respectable, which gives hope to the lower class
- Priestly hopes to change views of the young - in hope to change views of the old
- Responsibility and power
- Main Theme
- Power should be exercised
- Upper class determines much of what happens to the lower class
- Everyone is responsible for each other
- Conscience and guilt
- The children face up to their guilty conscious better than their parents
- Inspector can be portrayed as a manifestation of he characters guilt
- Time
- Irony
- Priiestly manipulates time at the end of the play
- Play is wrote after WWI, but set before, irony, due to the prosperity of the Birling, and the inevitable downfall
- Communication and the individual
- An Inspector Calls
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