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    Explore the ways in which Priestley makes this such a dramatic and significant moment in the play In this playing I will be exploring how Priestley makes this moment in the play so dramatic and significant. The Inspector has just left the Birling’s all thunderstruck and traumatized‚ each of them handling it in different ways. As Gerald walks in it has come clear to us that the older generation are set in their ways and do not hesitate to even think about what the Inspector has told them‚ yet are

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    UNIT 5001 – PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AS A MANAGER AND LEADER EA Unit 5001 v01 Page 1 of 4 | LEARNING OUTCOMES |ASSESSMENT CRITERIA | |1. Be able to assess and plan for personal professional development |1.1 Explain the importance of continual self-development in | |800 words |achieving organisational objectives

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    ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- 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‚ he shows how Shelia starts off at the beginning

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    the small actions they had done in the past affected her and lead to her death. He enters in a most appropriate way‚ "dressed in a darkish suit of the period”. He speaks very carefully. The inspector creates "an impression of massiveness." J B Priestley makes the inspector have a big impression to make him feel superior to the Birlings. The inspector has a habit of staring at the person before talking to them as a way of intimidating the person so that they feel he is more powerful than they are

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    Art After Philosophy (1969) Joseph Kosuth The fact that it has recently become fashionable for physicists themselves to be sympathetic toward religion . . . marks the physicists’ own lack of confidence in the validity of their hypotheses‚ which is a reaction on their part from the antireligious dogmatism of nineteenth-century scientists‚ and a natural outcome of the crisis through which physics has just passed. –A. J. Ayer. . . . once one has understood the Tractatus there will be no temptation

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    In the starting scene of ’An Inspector Calls’ J.B. Priestley used a variety methods and techniques to give the audience an idea about what was most likely to happen throughout the play. because the play is a murder and mystery genre‚ the audience are not given any real cause on why Eva Smith killed herself. Priestly is providing hints on who might of killed Eva Smith but the audience are not sure on who exactly might of been the cause of her death‚ which leaves the audience on the edge of their

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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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    amusing one‚ but this just gives me a picture of a young child sniggering to themselves in a corner‚ then realising they have done wrong and then persisting to be quite This first line is significant because it builds him up as a character and J B Priestley has cleverly thought of Eric’s opening line. This then impacts the reader by showing them immediately that he is treated like a boy so then acts like a boy. Priestley’s use of dialogue helps to portray Eric as a character of foolishness and

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    Who‚ in your opinion‚ is the most responsible for Eva Smith’s death?  An Inspector Calls was written by JB Priestley as a means of illustrating the flaws in the society of 1945 and the consequences that these flaws could bear. Priestley exemplifies this message most notably through the characters in the play. For example‚ although Eva Smith may not necessarily be a ‘real’ character‚ she is used as a representation of the entire working class community. This is central to the play because it means

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    In this question I have been asked to explore how j.b. Priestley presents sympathy for Eva Smith in ‘’An Inspector Calls’’ In "An Inspector Calls"‚ J.B. Priestley uses the characters and attitudes of the Birling family‚ especially Mr. Birling‚ to make the audience feel sympathy for Eva Smith. The family is "prosperous" and "comfortable"‚ and Mr. Birling’s extensive posturing and blagging emphasizes their good fortune. In the opening lines of the play‚ he is found to be drinking and discussing port

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