(Introduction - Introduce both texts and composer/director‚ short plot outline and link to question and examples) Photographs are a chilling reminder of the truth behind these women’s recounts‚ and an acknowledgement of their strength. Misto uses photographic images to achieve several things within his play. Firstly the images transport the audience to the world which these women are describing through their dialogue of memories. In Act One‚ whilst Bridie describes the evacuation of Singapore
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Inspector Calls Essay – To what extent is each character responsible for the death of Eva Smith? Each character is linked to Eva Smith in some way. The Birling family‚ Arthur‚ Mrs B‚ Sheila and Eric all contributed to her death along with Gerald‚ Sheila’s partner. In this essay I’ll be exploring how each of them contributed to her death and to what extent it is their responsibility. The first person involved with Eva Smith was Arthur Birling. She was one of his employees who was a ‘ring leader’
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An Inspector Calls In act one of ‘An inspector Calls’ how does J.B. Priestley use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to the members of the audience‚ as well as interest and involve them in the play? ‘An Inspector Calls’ is a thriller‚ written by J.B. Priestley in 1945 at the end of World War II but it was set in 1912 two years before World War I. Priestley was concerned about social conditions for working class people in Britain at the time he wrote the play and he wants his
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spot and work on their marriages through a marriage retreat led by one of the Doctors within the couple. All of their marriages have some sort of trouble. Mike who is married to Sheila has invited a single female friend‚ Trina‚ to come along and unknowningly to everyone he is having an affair with this woman. Sheila is a plus sized woman and Mike is not as attractive to her as he was when they first got married‚ which is why he strayed from their marriage. The next couple is a man who was a football
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ignore the shameful things that his family has done. When it appears that the Inspector might be a hoaxer he is happy to believe that everything is as it was a few hours ago. He copies the Inspector and laughs when he remembers the faces of Eric and Sheila and accuses them of being ’the famous younger generation who know it all’. This is an example of pride coming before a fall‚ a moment later of course he is panicking as the phone rings again Mr Birling represents Priestley’s hatred of businessmen
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engagement to Sheila Birling. Mr Birling is an industrialist and the people at his table represent the wealthy upper class‚ whose speech and actions reflect the arrogance and prejudice of such families. Mrs Birling’s reproach to her husband for having paid the cook a compliment for the fine meal‚ [Arthur‚ you’re not supposed
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are shown that this respectable’ young man has his own dark secrets. We first see suggestions of this at the dinner table‚ when Sheila (again) asks him where he was last summer‚ and then later Sheila says to him that he must have done things that he was ashamed of‚ he gives himself away immediately by being surprised and on guard because of the comment. What bothers Sheila is maybe not so much that he has a secret but that he is not honest with her. Even when she confronts him about how he knew Eva
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Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen) and in the Shoe-Horn Sonata (John Misto) the traumatic experience is recreated through the use of symbolism. John Misto positions us to consider the burden of Prisoner of war memories through the use of characters Bridie and Sheila. In Act one scene three Bridie publically states the memory of her ship ablaze and sinking‚ “some women started to leap from deck... those women who’d jumped were floating quite well – but all of them were dead.” this realisation of the Japanese not
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class is also shown through the character of Sheila. Sheila is a character whom takes advantage of the social standing which she holds and thinks because of this that she holds power over others. This is shown in Act One when she recalls being in a “furious temper” when she was in the department store Millwards where she is a frequent customer‚ she informs the inspector of the scene where she apparently saw Eva Smith smiling when Sheila tried on a dress. Sheila then takes advantage of the social standing
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Arthur Birling (Mr. Birling)‚ Sybil Birling (Mrs. Birling)‚ Sheila Birling‚ Eric Birling‚ Gerald Croft‚ Inspector Goole and Eva Smith. At the beginning of the play Mr. Birling gives his view of responsibility in a long speech to Eric and Gerald. Mr. Birling says: “If we were all responsible for everything that happened
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