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    David Cruickshank 13/02/15 “How does priestly present Sheila and Gerald in the play? Use brief quotations to support your ideas.” Throughout the play‚ Priestley compares and contrasts the characters of Sheila and Gerald. In this essay I will be discussing how Priestley Sheila develops during the play‚ how many affect the situation of Gerald and Sheila’s relationship when new points of information are addressed to the Birling family‚ and also

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    Smith’s death. Mrs. Birling‚ Priestley notes‚ is her husband’s social superior‚ just as Gerald will be Sheila’s social superior if they do get married. Priestley also subtly notes that Gerald’s mother‚ Lady Croft‚ disapproves of Gerald’s marrying Sheila for precisely this reason. Finally‚ everyone’s treatment of Eva might be put down (either in part or altogether) to the fact that she is a girl‚ as Mrs. Birling puts it‚ “of that class.” Priestley clearly was interested in the class system and how

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    In my work on J.B Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’‚ I am looking for evidence on who the inspector is. I believe that Priestley didn’t want us to know for sure the identity of the inspector; he just wanted us to speculate. First of all‚ I believe he could be a spirit‚ moreover‚ a ghoul. The definition of a ghoul in the dictionary is ‘a spirit interested in morbid things’. The fact his name is Inspector Goole‚ a homophone of ghoul‚ provides more evidence that he could be a ghoul. The fact he keeps

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    How does Priestley show the importance of the Inspector to the play as a whole in ’An Inspector Calls’? The Inspector in ’An Inspector Calls’ serves a variety of important functions within the play. He makes the Birlings recognise their faults and the consequences of their actions; highlights the importance of people taking responsibility for one another; and also serves as an all-seeing‚ God-like figure‚ giving the impression that those who do not take responsibility for their crimes will be punished

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    Inspector Calls Summary

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    An Inspector Calls Summary Act 1 The Birling family was having celebratory dinner on Sheila(the daughter of Arthur Birling) and Gerald(an aristocrat) while discussing the progress of Arthur Birling’s business and the events that has happened in 1912. Then an Inspector enters the scene and starts questioning the Birling family over the suicide of a pretty girl named “Eva”. During the course of the questioning it is revealed that Sheila and Mr Birling had contributed to the death of Eva Smith(“pretty

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    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 at him almost in Triumph)” Shelia‚ shortly before the end of Act 1‚ crucially begins to understand the importance of the Inspector and the fact

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    ‘We do not live alone. We are members of one body.’ How does this play highlight the theme of responsibility? ‘An Inspector Calls’ is a detective/drama play written in 1945 by J.B. Priestley. Priestley believed in very socialist views that are very much about sharing and same values for all. Theses get reflected in the play‚ most notably as his role as the inspector‚ where Priestley most outputs his views in direct contrast with Mr Birling. Priestley portrays Birling as an idiotic capitalist that

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    Women play a major part in enabling J.B. Priestley‚ the writer of the morality play ‘An Inspector Calls’‚ and John Steinbeck‚ the author of the novella ‘Of Mice and Men’‚ to successfully portray their messages. In ‘An Inspector Calls’‚ Priestley is able to enforce his message that there was a great need for change in 1945 post war Britain‚ away from the unjust and unavailing capitalist society to a socialist one where everyone is responsible for their counterparts through women. This is achieved

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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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    is the role of the Inspector in “An Inspector Calls”? Set at the close of the Edwardian Era‚ J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” is a detective story like no other. Premiered in 1945‚ the play explores the class divide and social hierarchy of early 20th Century Britain‚ warns of the evils of Capitalism and expresses Priestley’s own Socialist message. As a rich‚ middle-class family celebrate an engagement‚ their idyllic world is shattered by the arrival of a police Inspector‚ investigating the

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