Selections from the Diary of Private Joseph Plumb Martin Joseph Plumb Martin was born in western Massachusetts in 1760. His father was a pastor who often got in trouble for speaking his mind too freely. At the age of seven‚ Joseph was sent to live with his affluent grandfather. When the war started in 1775 Martin chafed to enlist but he was too young. Many of Martin’s friends had enlisted and Martin was quite susceptible to their peer pressure.In June of 1776‚ at the age of 15‚ Martin‚ though
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NOTES Priestley’s Life: John Boynton Priestley was born into a working class family in 1894. He knew early on that he wanted to become a writer‚ but decided against going to university as he thought he would get a better feel for the world around him by working. Instead‚ he became a junior clerk with a local wool firm at the age of 16. When the First World War broke out‚ Priestley joined the infantry and only just escaped death on a number of occasions. After the war‚ he gained a degree from
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Analyse the role of the female characters in An Inspector Calls Priestley includes a range of female characters in An Inspector Calls from an upper class snob‚ through a vain daughter to an oppressed factory worker. Throughout this play‚ the selfishness and moral hypocrisy of upper middle-class capitalist society is revealed. The vulnerability of women evokes sympathy‚ which supports Priestley’s belief in gender equality and community as “one body”. At the beginning of the play‚ Sybil
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Joseph Priestley and Carl Wilhelm Scheele both independently discovered oxygen‚ but Priestly is usually given credit for the discovery. They were both able to produce oxygen by heating mercuric oxide (HgO). Priestley called the gas produced in his experiments ’dephlogisticated air’ and Scheele called his ’fire air’. The name oxygen was created by Antoine Lavoisier
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An Inspector calls An inspector calls was written by J.B Priestley in 1934 and performed in 1945‚ 33 years after the war. But the play itself is set around 1912 just before the war broke out‚ the play is a neutralistic‚ mystery drama about a middle class family named the Birlings who all have a mischievous secret that involves the death of Eva Smith‚ which teaches people a lesson about social justice. When the play opens the Birling family are cheerfully celebrating the engagement of the beloved
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An Inspector Calls is a definitive play written by J.B Priestley. It explores the many themes that wove through society before the first world war‚ such lack of social responsibility‚ social disparity between different classes and the gap of understanding and contemplating between the two dissimilar generations – the young and the old. In this essay‚ I will be exploring the character Sheila Birling and how and why does she change in the play‚ in response to the Inspector and to her family. At the
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Arguably‚ Priestley uses Sheila Birling as a vehicle to explore a diverse range of ideas‚ from the issue of gender roles and stereotypes through the idea of socialism and the need of shared responsibility with which Priestley himself occupied. Sheila can be seen as a representation of people changing their attitude and approaches through mistakes. Priestley seems to use her to encourage people to change and not to stepping back into the period before the world war happened where people only cares
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St Patricks College 2013 ‘An Inspector Calls’ Ms. Galvin Lindsay Kotmel Classical Literature Major – Due 01/05/2013 AN INSPECTOR CALLS BY J.B PRIESTLEY Good Evening Reading Group‚ I am Lindsay Kotmel and welcome to a seminar on ‘An Inspector Calls’ inclusion within the western canon. Some institutions such as schools‚ religion and the media determine what is considered ‘truth’ and ‘knowledge’ on a variety of issues‚ theories and concepts within society. Thus constructions arrived from culture
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How does J.B. Priestley create dramatic tension at the end of act two? Events throughout the Act lead to the dramatic tension at the end of act two such as the gradual build up towards the shock of Eric as the father of Eva’s unborn child; Mrs Birling’s swift change form outright confidence to devastation at the end of act two and Eric’s entrance just as Mrs Birling has claimed that the father of Eva’s unborn child should take sole responsibility for the suicide. Priestley creates this dramatic
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Eva’s letter The Inspector tells Mr. Birling that Eva Smith/Daisy Renton “left a letter…and a sort of diary”. The letter could be to her nearest relative or to Gerald Croft. Write - as you imagine Eva would have done - the letter and diary entries (between 1910 and 1912) for the key events in her life‚ from her starting to work for Birling & Co. to her suicide. Year and month What happens September 1910 Eva sacked by Birling & Co. December 1910 Eva employed by Milwards. Late January 1911 Eva
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