Get hundreds more free LitCharts at LitCharts.com. An Inspector Calls BA BACK CKGR GROUND OUND INFO AUTHOR BIO Ghoulish Goole. Many interpretations of the text consider the Inspector’s ghostly name to be symbolic of the mystery that surrounds his character. PL PLO OT O OVERVIEW VERVIEW Full Name: J.B. Priestley Date of Birth: September 13‚ 1894 Place of Birth: Bradford‚ West Riding of Yorkshire‚ England Date of Death: August 14‚ 1984 Brief Life Story: Priestley grew up in Manningham‚ England
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is the role of the Inspector in “An Inspector Calls”? Set at the close of the Edwardian Era‚ J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” is a detective story like no other. Premiered in 1945‚ the play explores the class divide and social hierarchy of early 20th Century Britain‚ warns of the evils of Capitalism and expresses Priestley’s own Socialist message. As a rich‚ middle-class family celebrate an engagement‚ their idyllic world is shattered by the arrival of a police Inspector‚ investigating the
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AN INSPECTOR CALLS MR JOHNSON’S EXAM REVISION BOOKLET HOW SHOULD I REVISE? 1. Firstly‚ you need to look at some past exam questions so you know what to expect – see pages 3 and 4. Do this now. Once completed put a tick next to this first step. 2. OK‚ now that you’ve done that you need to understand what to write and how to write it. You’ll find all of this information on page 4 and 5. Read and digest this information now. Once completed put a tick next to this second step.
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Sheila for precisely this reason. Finally‚ everyone’s treatment of Eva might be put down (either in part or altogether) to the fact that she is a girl‚ as Mrs. Birling puts it‚ “of that class.” Priestley clearly was interested in the class system and how it determines the decisions that people make. Youth and Age The play implicitly draws out a significant contrast between the older and younger generations of Birlings. While Arthur and Sybil refuse to accept responsibility for their actions toward
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Explore how Priestly presents and develops the relationship between Shelia and Mrs. Birling in ‘An Inspector Calls’. Priestly uses dialogue and stage directions to show a void between different generations. Although Mrs. Birling is Shelia’s mother she still refers to her as a ‘girl[s]’. The audience can sense Mrs. Birling’s condescending tone and how she still retains the view that Shelia is an immature and ignorant ‘girl[s]’ even though she is a fully grown adult who will soon be wed. This is ironic
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Examine how the inspector is so successful in his methods of investigating the Billings for their ‘crimes’ against Eva Smith. In An Inspector Calls the Inspector plays a very important part‚ if not the most important of them all. He is the only man who‚ in one night‚ managed to tell the family all that the family itself had been ignoring and pretending not to see for a long time. He barges in on them when they are celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft therefore a very
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Orla Brennan How are women presented in "An Inspector Calls" and why are they presented in this way? In the play‚ all the women are portrayed as delicate characters- particularly Sheila who the men feel needs protecting from all manner of things like the information that a girl has committed suicide. Set in 1912‚ the woman in the play would have been seen as possessions to their husband and did not work or have careers due to the patriarchal society. However‚ it would have been acceptable for
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about the ways in which Priestley creates tension in an inspector calls. Tension is used as a very effective effect in writing‚ to give the audience an apprehensive view‚ as well as putting them in suspense‚ so they have a reason to continue to read. It is especially used in mysteries or detective pieces‚ as it helps build up to a climax‚ that could shock the audience or intrigue them even more. Priestley wrote the play ‘an inspector calls’ with very effect techniques that all creates tension‚
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examples are … the secondary sector involves … three examples are.. There tertiary sector involves… three examples are businesses depend on each other to produce goods for consumers. A product is produced with the help of all three sectors. For example… this is known as the … some businesses operate in all three sectors. An example is… most just operate in one or two. Examples of businesses that operate in two sectors are… examples of businesses that only operate in one sector are… 4) Start-up costs:
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significance of Inspector Goole in the play? The audience are first introduced to Inspector Goole half way through act 1. He is a mysterious character from the very beginning‚ but we see that he is confident and has an air of authority about him and he is determined to make the family face their guilt. He claims that he has seen the dead body of Eva Smith who died earlier that day after she had ‘swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant’. He is of much significance throughout the play as Priestly uses him
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