In ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘An Inspector Calls’ both authors indirectly show their beliefs and opinions towards women and the way they are treated by society. In the time both texts were set- 1912 and the 1930’s- women were generally seen as a lesser class than men and due to their sexuality‚ they were not treated fairly. Steinbeck and Priestley show this at many points in their texts. Both Eva Smith and Curley’s wife are victims of their class as Eva is victimised by each member of the Birling Family
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How Does Priestley Present the Inspector as an Unusual Policeman in Act One? The inspector is presented as unusual by his personality‚ conduct and expressed views. Throughout the act‚ Priestley makes the Inspector say and do things that an audience would not expect of a conventional policeman. A conventional policeman would be polite and professional. We would expect an Inspector to be discrete in his work as to avoid causing problems or drawing undue attention at the case and wrongdoings of the
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celebrating the engagement of Sheila and Gerald which is a lucrative decision for both families‚ he is drunk and “guffaws” at his sisters optimism. Priestly portrays him as an immature character‚ totally not in control of
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which Priestley could express his views. An Inspector Calls focuses around the Birling family‚ this consists of: Arthur Burling; head of the family‚ Sybil Birling; Arthur’s wife‚ Sheila and Eric Burling; Arthur and Sybil’s two spoilt children‚ and Gerald Croft; rich and successful‚ and Shelia Birling’s Fiancé. Throughout the sum of Act 1 in An Inspector Calls‚ Priestly uses an extensive array of both dramatic and ironic devices to entail the audience into the play‚ and make the plot rational and
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role in the death and hopefully come to some conclusion as to who is the most to blame. Firstly we come to Mr Birling‚ the head of the family. He feels that he has to prove himself to others and does this by showing off. For example boasting to Gerald about how it’s been hinted to him that he will be knighted: “… there’s a fair chance that I might find my way into the next Honours List. Just a knighthood‚ of course.” A wealthy man who has worked his way up the social ladder and describes himself
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An Inspector Calls How does Priestly develop the Character of Sheila Birling? In an Inspector Calls‚ Sheila Birling’s character is seen as a child that has been raised into an upper-class family and has become familiar with the luxuries and social standing lower classes wouldn’t dream of obtaining‚ her spoilt upbringing and deceiving parents have grounded her in a semi-childhood where she is blinded from the injustice of the class system and the treatment of the lower ‘classed’ majority of the public
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Through the stage directions‚ Priestley reveals that Eric was in his ‘early twenties‚ not quite at ease‚ half shy‚ half assertive’; the asyndetic list here creates the sense that he is overwhelming and overbearing (perhaps alluding to the self-righteous superiority that his bourgeois lifestyle has instilled in him). In addition to this impression is his ‘half shy‚ half assertive’ nature. The adjective ‘shy’ connotes apprehension and nervousness which juxtaposes the implications of dominance and confidence
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responsibility features keenly in the structure of the play. Each of the three acts concludes on a climax‚ with greater suspense and revelation than the one before. Act one’s penultimate moment is a confrontation between the engaged couple‚ Gerald Croft and Shelia Birling. Croft wishes to hide the fact that he once had an affair with Eva Smith from the Inspector but Shelia is adamant that this is folly and that the Inspector already knows of his dealings with the girl‚ “you
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support her in many ways. We can see this when he says “Sheila means a tremendous lot to me” over the engagement dinner with Gerald. It is portrayed that he truly has her best interests at heart and only wants the best for her. Although‚ as Birling later reveals that he wants Sheila to marry Gerald not only for her benefit but also for his‚ as Gerald’s father’s business (Crofts
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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 happy‚ jolly environment and turns it into the most stressful‚ horrible evenings the family has ever encountered. The Inspector is described by the stage directions saying that he wasn’t a particularly tall man and yet he
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