In my work on J.B Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’‚ I am looking for evidence on who the inspector is. I believe that Priestley didn’t want us to know for sure the identity of the inspector; he just wanted us to speculate. First of all‚ I believe he could be a spirit‚ moreover‚ a ghoul. The definition of a ghoul in the dictionary is ‘a spirit interested in morbid things’. The fact his name is Inspector Goole‚ a homophone of ghoul‚ provides more evidence that he could be a ghoul. The fact he keeps
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BCC 158 October 16‚ 2013 In the story The Bass‚ The river‚ and Sheila Mant by W. D. Wetherell the narrator‚ an awkward fourteen year old boy whose love for both fishing and the girl next door will both be tested. On land he is a typical teen with a crush on a beauty out of his league‚ when it comes to being in the water the boy has more confidence than the average male model. Although he is comfortable in the water‚ it is in the canoe where he makes his biggest mistake. In the start of the
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An Inspector Calls has been called “a play of contrasts”. Write about how Priestley presents some of the contrasts in the play. Priestley presents many contrasts in the play‚ An Inspector Calls. One of the most prominent is the contrast between the generations: the open‚ more impressionable younger generation is contrasted with the traditional older generation throughout the play. For example‚ Sheila changes much more in the play than her parents‚ to the point that she is “frightened” and “ashamed”
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The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant by W. D. Wetherell‚ and Lamb to the Slaughter by Ronald Dahl display a theme of acting on impulse. This relates to our lives in many ways‚ In our everyday lives many things trigger us to act on impulse; when our parents chose to fight with us‚ we tend to ‘snap’ back‚ not thinking about how our actions could affect us in the long run. These stories share the theme of ‘acting on impulse’‚ even though they have different characters‚ settings‚ and events. In
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An Inspector Calls John Priestly was born in Bradford in 1894. Priestly had grown up into his father’s circle of socialist friends; he saw women and men‚ rich and poor‚ all working together. After the First World War women returned to being housewives‚ the typical life that the perfect woman was expected to lead. This greatly influenced Priestly’s writing because he didn’t agree with that way
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and Sheila Mant” is about a boy who loves fishing and a girl named Sheila. The narrator is a very kind boy who tries to treat Sheila as best as he can. However‚ Sheila doesn’t really exchange kindness back to him. Sheila isn’t a very good friend because while the narrator was struggling to paddle the canoe on the way to their fair date‚ Sheila made no move to pick up the extra paddle and help him. Sheila would even “dangle her feet over the side” (Wetherall 2). The second example of Sheila not being
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by them. Living in Bradford also gave him a good foundation with which to build up the kind of setting a family like the Birlings would have lived in. Unfortunately for him‚ when war broke out in 1914 he was of prime recruiting age‚ and so was forced into enduring‚ and ultimately surviving‚ the horrors of the front line in France. He was‚ like the other survivors‚ a changed man when he returned. He witnessed the impoverished and aristocracy fighting and dying together‚ as if there was no class
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An Inspector Calls was written by J.B. Priestley after the Second World War. It is set in the spring of 1912 at the Brumley home of the Birlings‚ a prosperous industrial family in the North Midlands. When the Inspector Goole first enters the scene‚ Mr. Birling is giving some ‘good advice’‚ as he calls it‚ “A man has to make his own way – has to look after himself…The way some of these cranks talk and write now‚ you’d think everybody has look after everybody else‚ as if we’re all mixed up together”
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Winston Churchill thinks that socialism is a philosophy of failure however John Steinbeck author Of Mice and Men & JB Priestly author of An Inspector Calls would say that capitalism creates the failure in society not socialism. Both authors create a microcosm to show us how society was like at the time. This is called social realism. The two texts show how rich people are quick to take advantage of the poor and the vulnerable.
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Explore how Othello changes throughout the play In order to understand how Othello changes throughout the play‚ we have to first take a look at the types of the relationships in the play as his behaviour changes directly links to the influences by the other people whom he has deep relationships. There are two types of relationships‚ one that is between female characters and between male characters. Both have deep bonds between each other. However women friendships are more emotional. Emotions are
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