help create tension from when the Inspector first arrives and helps to show his importance. Inspector Goole enters the play in a very ironic way as he comes just after Mr Birling‚ a ‘hard-headed practical business man’ has given a small speech to Gerald and Eric saying that ‘a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own’. This shows that he is a capitalist and only cares for his family. This is irony because the Inspector has come to help the family to realise that they
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obsessive behaviour over status to invoke popularity or power within a particular crowd‚ which is evident in the very first scenes of the play when Birling says to Gerald: ‘It’s exactly the same port your father gets from him’‚ suggesting Mr Birling bought it in order to imitate a more prominent societal figure as well as to gain a rapport with Croft. Similarly‚ Birling tries this technique with the Inspector‚ however this time to gain leverage over him by asking if he sees much of ‘Chief Constable‚ Colonel
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An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestly - A* GCSE English Literature Drama Coursework An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestly - A* GCSE English Literature Drama Coursework Page 1 of 11 by Luno2012 29 Followers Scroll to the bottom of the page to find more A* GRADE GCSE coursework! An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley A* GCSE English Literature essay writing Helpful hints! The text in bold will give you pointers and advice as to what you should include in your essay‚ and why this will
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The poem The Ballad of Calvary Street’ by James Baxter‚ the film American Beauty’ (directed by Sam Mendes and released in 1999)‚ and the play An Inspector Calls’ written by J.B. Priestley and performed at Circa Theatre in 2005‚ are all texts that share a similar theme. Although these three texts are different in terms of authorship and the medium through which the significant messages are communicated‚ what the texts do have in common is that they all convey ideas about how facades and superficial
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through the Inspector’s meetings with the Birling family and Gerald Croft that each character is made aware of his or her selfish and uncaring attitude towards the less fortunate in society. In this sense‚ Inspector Goole is a staging device but he exceeds the expectations of such a role and it would be unfair to call him ’just’ a staging device. Before the Inspector arrives at the Birling home we meet the family celebrating Mr Gerald Croft’s engagement to Sheila Birling. Mr Birling is an industrialist
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“Of Mice and Men” is a novel written in 1937 by John Steinbeck. The novel is set in 1930’s located at Salinas‚ California. Steinbeck spent time working on farms when he was young. Certainly during these times‚ he saw the life of migrant workers. Steinbeck wrote the novel to show the terrible hardship of migrant workers and the huge social and economic difficulties during the great depression. The novel is about two migrant workers called Lennie and George searching for work in Soledad‚ California
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What 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
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In ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘An Inspector Calls’ both authors indirectly show their beliefs and opinions towards women and the way they are treated by society. In the time both texts were set- 1912 and the 1930’s- women were generally seen as a lesser class than men and due to their sexuality‚ they were not treated fairly. Steinbeck and Priestley show this at many points in their texts. Both Eva Smith and Curley’s wife are victims of their class as Eva is victimised by each member of the Birling Family
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celebrating the engagement of Sheila and Gerald which is a lucrative decision for both families‚ he is drunk and “guffaws” at his sisters optimism. Priestly portrays him as an immature character‚ totally not in control of
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How Does Priestley Present the Inspector as an Unusual Policeman in Act One? The inspector is presented as unusual by his personality‚ conduct and expressed views. Throughout the act‚ Priestley makes the Inspector say and do things that an audience would not expect of a conventional policeman. A conventional policeman would be polite and professional. We would expect an Inspector to be discrete in his work as to avoid causing problems or drawing undue attention at the case and wrongdoings of the
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