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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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Written in 1945 and based in the year 1914‚ J.B. Priestley’s ’Inspector Calls’ is an interesting depiction of the socio-politico-economic change‚ emphasising how between 1914 and 1945‚ factors such as the world wars united Great Britain‚ despite conflicting ideological perspectives. During the play‚ Priestly inserts his stance‚ using the main protagonist inspector Goole‚ as a metaphor for Priestly’s socialist views on social equality and responsibility. The inspector is also showcased as an omniscient
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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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that she had worked for the Birlings‚ except had been sacked as she had asked for a raise in her wages. Sheila does not condone her father’s actions‚ heatedly replying “it was a mean thing to do”. This shows that Sheila is different to her parents‚ and when she the inspector refers to Eva as cheap labour‚ Sheila realises that they aren’t cheap labour but that “they’re people”. This shows that Sheila has empathy towards Eva‚ recognising her as a person not just a worker. As the inspector informs her
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his daughter Sheila’s engagement to Gerald‚ because of the possibility of the two businesses merging ultimately benefiting the Birling’s financial status and power. Though Gerald’s parents are not as happy with the prospect of their son marrying Sheila‚ as they feel she is not good enough for Gerald. Part 2 Gerald had met ’Daisy Renton’ in the stalls bar at The Palace Variety Theatre in March of the previous year. He’d noticed a girl who looked out of place‚ and was different from all
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the death of eva smith. In contrast to Mr and Mrs Birling Sheila has total opposite views and realises what she did was wrong‚ and wishes that she could go back and never get Eva sacked- “If i could help her now- I would.” Sheila and Birlings total opposing views create conflict Due to the fact that Sheila feels that her father should take some responsibilty‚ like she did‚ for helping towards Eva Smith’s death. It is not only Sheila who has the guts to accept what she has done was wrong because
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