anticipation for the continuance of the action in Act three. At the beginning of Act two the audience expects the story to move onto Gerald’s confession. But instead‚ Priestley delays the action by shifting the audience’s attention to Sybil and Sheila‚ insisting that they should be allowed to hear what Gerald has to say. This builds tension and increases the audience’s curiosity. Priestley also increases tension by having the Inspector release information bit by bit. He shows the photo(s) to
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‘An Inspector Calls’ is a play set in1912. However it was written by J.B Priestley in 1945 and set in Brumley. As he lived through both wars he could see what had actually happened in the time the play was set. J.B Priestley uses the characters to express his views on the issue of social responsibility‚ morality and about class divisions with many themes including greed‚ regret‚ guilt and blame. ’’An Inspector Calls’’ is about the Birling family who are quite wealthy. They are celebrating their
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women’s spirits and provided them with happy memories. At the end of scene four‚ the women are happily recounting the time when Sheila stitched a pin into Lipstick Larry’s loin cloth. It is evident from their amusement that the humour gave them strength to carry on. On the soundtrack‚ the audience hears young Bridie being beaten up by Lipstick Larry and a frightened young Sheila. Instead of the women just recounting Bridie being beaten up‚ Misto involves the audience’s auditory senses which allow them
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I am reading”The Bass‚ the River and Sheila Mant” by WD Wetherell and I am on page five. This book is about a 14 year old boy having a crush on a girl named Sheila Mant. Throughout the story he does many things to get her attention. As the story goes on he is stuck between two choices. Which one will he choose? In this paper I will be questioning and connecting. Will the boy choose the fish or Sheila? Here are a few reasons why he would choose the girl. First‚ he was constantly trying to impress
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Sheila was brought up in a family who had continuously given her money and spoiled her with expensive presents and possessions. During her time growing up in such an environment and being introduced so abruptly to the inspector‚ Sheila is sheltered by her parents from the outside world of society. Priestly uses a mouthpiece‚ Inspector Goole‚ to expose Sheila resulting in a change in her character as well as to let her realise the treatment and discrimination between classes of different social standing
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What important elements have helped to create distinctive and effective visual impacts in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and ONE other related text of your own choosing? Prescribed Text: The Shoe-Horn Sonata Related Text: The Truman Show The utilization of elements used by John Misto in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and Peter Weir in The Truman Show help the audiences create distinctive and effective visual images. The elements used are Projected Images‚ Symbolism‚ Use of Interviewers‚ Sense of truth / Overcoming
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How does Priestley present the change in Sheila during the course of the play An Inspector Calls? How do you think this change reflects some of Priestley’s ideas? Initially Sheila is thought of to be quite childish and immature at the start of the play as she teases and has a playful argument with her brother and with her mother telling her off saying ‘’Now stop it‚ you two’’. This resembles an ordinary family and so we can see that Sheila is treated as a child and behaves like one through the use
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She is horrified by her own part in Eva’s story. She feels full of guilt for her jealous actions and blames herself as "really responsible." Priestley uses Sheila to show that even though most rich people are snobby people who don’t care about anybody but themselves there are some exceptions. Sheila is one of these exceptions. Sheila: “(laughs hysterically) Why-you fool-he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet. You’ll see. You’ll see. (She looks
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~selfish. Sheila – Takes the suicide in a more sympathetic way and is the first one to ask what she was like. ~She is also partly responsible for Eva Smith’s death ~Birling wants to sweep the death under the carpet however‚ Sheila acts like all of its her fault and she would do anything to change what she had done. Sheila recognizes that the inspector knows everything and she knows that something weird is going on. When Gerald starts telling the story‚ Birling wants Sheila to leave
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