How does Shakespeare create dramatic interest for the audience in the trial scene‚ Act 4 scene 1 in The Merchant of Venice’? In the trial scene (act 4 scene 1)‚ Shakespeare uses many different dramatic techniques to make the tension in the court room rise and build. He also uses dramatic irony and many other techniques to engage an audience in this particular scene in the play. These techniques would work have worked on an Elizabethan audience or a modern day audience. Although‚ these two eras
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the world‚ and conveys this through morality in An Inspector Calls‚ giving his audience the chance to appreciate his views‚ and the ways he believed people should treat one another‚ with the same attitudes and respect we would have ourselves. An Inspector Calls has a socialist aspect to it. It contains many views and references to socialism‚ and the inspector is arguably an alter ego‚ through which Priestley could express himself. An Inspector Calls is namely classed as a "time play"‚ as the family
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Erics character and his function within An Inspector Calls In an Inspector Calls Priestley aims to show that all actions have repercussions. He also tells us that charity isn’t always good charity unless it is thoughtful and helps someone as it can often just leave people in a worse off position. Eric helps Priestley to achieve this aim by thinking he is helping Eva but actually he leaves her in a worse position without realising it as he shows her what she could have had. Priestley also wants us
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The story begins with a description of the history of Susan and Matthew Rawlings’s marriage‚ which has been a very practical union. They married in their late twenties after having known each other for some time and after having experienced other relationships. They‚ and their friends‚ consider them to be "well matched." Before their children came‚ Susan worked in an advertising firm while Matthew was a sub-editor for a London newspaper. They began their family in a house in Richmond‚ a suburb of
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one before that. This subject began long before then; women’s roles have always been confused and toyed with in our patriarchal societies. This essay will explore the types of female roles presented in The Crucible‚ Macbeth‚ and An Inspector Calls. In An Inspector Calls‚ there are three female characters. The fact that they are outnumbered from the onset is a clue to the fact that thy play a more submissive role in the entire piece. This also reflects on how women expressed themselves very submissively
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An Inspector Calls is a play based in 1912‚ although it was written in 1946 by JB Priestley. Priestley was a deeply political writer with a strong favour for Communism. Communism is the political belief that there is no rich or poor and that everybody is equal‚ indeed Communists also believe that there should be a planned economy and no wages would be paid to the workers as this money would be used to fuel the infrastructure and the economy. When Priestley wrote ‘An Inspector Calls’‚ It was 1946
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Who is Inspector Goole? His identity is a mystery; he is not a real policeman though as Eric says‚ "He was our police inspector all right"(p.59) he did such a good job at making each person admit his/her guilt. Possible explanations of Goole’s identity that the essay will tackle are: simply an imposter who played an elaborate hoax on a group of upper class people who deserved to be frightened in this way. some kind of spiritual being or emissary with a moral mission to punish selfish behaviour
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Although JB Priestley wrote the play in 1946‚ it was set in 1910. ’An inspector Calls’ is a morality play which reflects the social and industrial unrest of the time. Priestley was a socialist living in a capitalist society. He felt very strongly about this and wrote the play to get people to change. He believed that Britain needed a socialist government to lead it into post-war reconstruction. It is clear from the play that the poor were treated very badly by the rich. Priestly believed in equality
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In my family‚ my brother‚ mother‚ and I have all been diagnosed with abnormal parathyroid or thyroid conditions that required surgery for us. My mother‚ the primary care-taker of our family‚ worked at a school cafeteria so that she may be able to provide for us at home after school hours as she was limited in her ability to find employment with a technical cooking degree that would still accommodate the family life. Our financial limitations were exacerbated by the diagnoses from the demands of surgery
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In the play “An Inspector Calls” by J.B. Priestly‚ Mr. Birling and Sheila Birling have contrasting attitudes to social issues. J.B Priestly uses this difference to highlight the diversity between generations and their reactions to the situations faced. He also shows the difference in the way they act upon hearing the news and how they change throughout the play. Arthur Birling is the father to Sheila Birling and so is presented as the older‚ “old-fashioned” generation whereas Shelia is the younger
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