------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- An inspector calls JB Priestley wrote the play ‘An Inspector calls’ in 1912‚ just when the Second World War was over. He was trying to make people see that a socialist government would work by voicing his socialist views. His is written in a very critical way about the class system‚ highlighting how it is the upper class causing problems. Priestley speaks about women’s place in society too‚
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Section1: Research who J.B Priestly was; make a list of notes summarising details about him‚ his beliefs and his writing. About John Boynton Priestley: John Boynton Priestley was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 13 September 1894. His father was a headmaster and his mother died when he was just two years old‚ leaving his father to remarry four years later. He grew up into a family and a wider group of friends who enjoyed the arts. As he grew up he was caught up in in-depth
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’An Inspector Calls’‚ many contrasts and paradox’s are present and at the centre of them all is the character known as Inspector Goole. However‚ the inspector is not any ordinary inspector. I believe that the inspector is used as a device by Priestley to explore the wider themes of the play and to depict other characters true personalities. This essay will explore some of the techniques Priestley presents the inspector in An Inspector Calls. One of the ways Priestley presents the inspector is through
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Writing Text Types and Purposes Production and Distribution of Writing Speaking and Listening Comprehension and Collaboration Language Conventions of Standard English Vocabulary Acquisition and Use 2. Student Objectives/Learning Outcomes identify complex characters in a text and explain how their multiple or conflicting motivations contribute to their complexity. [RL.9-10.3] trace how complex characters develop over the course of a text. [RL.9-10.3] analyze how complex characters interact
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What is the 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
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The 90/10 Principle states 10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react. For example‚ a driver cannot control a red light but the driver can control their reaction. With that line of thinking‚ famous entrepreneur and author Avinash Kaushik created the 10/90 rule to achieve web analytic successes. Organizations of all kinds are using data to create a competitive advantage in departmental areas such as sales‚ marketing and operations. Until data is transformed
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During the time An Inspector Calls was written the author wanted to encourage the audience to feel and express their emotions they had from the time leading up to 1945. Historical events happened between 1912 and 1945‚ which helped the author create Inspector Goole. Inspector Goole was portrayed as a sham and it was hard for the other characters to believe what he was doing because he already knew so much. The author created someone in the play that the Conservative family would dislike. He had
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What is the Inspectors role in the novel An Inspector Calls? The Inspector plays an intriguing role in J.B Priestley’s Inspector Calls. There are many different interpretations of the Inspectors role in the play but in my opinion he represents the author Priestley without the audience knowing until the end of the play. The Inspector as a character is used to show Priestley’s views of social and political unjust of his time. Priestley does this by giving the inspector power to‚ question each character
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