which Priestley could express his views. An Inspector Calls focuses around the Birling family‚ this consists of: Arthur Burling; head of the family‚ Sybil Birling; Arthur’s wife‚ Sheila and Eric Burling; Arthur and Sybil’s two spoilt children‚ and Gerald Croft; rich and successful‚ and Shelia Birling’s Fiancé. Throughout the sum of Act 1 in An Inspector Calls‚ Priestly uses an extensive array of both dramatic and ironic devices to entail the audience into the play‚ and make the plot rational and
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role in the death and hopefully come to some conclusion as to who is the most to blame. Firstly we come to Mr Birling‚ the head of the family. He feels that he has to prove himself to others and does this by showing off. For example boasting to Gerald about how it’s been hinted to him that he will be knighted: “… there’s a fair chance that I might find my way into the next Honours List. Just a knighthood‚ of course.” A wealthy man who has worked his way up the social ladder and describes himself
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An Inspector Calls How does Priestly develop the Character of Sheila Birling? In an Inspector Calls‚ Sheila Birling’s character is seen as a child that has been raised into an upper-class family and has become familiar with the luxuries and social standing lower classes wouldn’t dream of obtaining‚ her spoilt upbringing and deceiving parents have grounded her in a semi-childhood where she is blinded from the injustice of the class system and the treatment of the lower ‘classed’ majority of the public
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responsibility features keenly in the structure of the play. Each of the three acts concludes on a climax‚ with greater suspense and revelation than the one before. Act one’s penultimate moment is a confrontation between the engaged couple‚ Gerald Croft and Shelia Birling. Croft wishes to hide the fact that he once had an affair with Eva Smith from the Inspector but Shelia is adamant that this is folly and that the Inspector already knows of his dealings with the girl‚ “you
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support her in many ways. We can see this when he says “Sheila means a tremendous lot to me” over the engagement dinner with Gerald. It is portrayed that he truly has her best interests at heart and only wants the best for her. Although‚ as Birling later reveals that he wants Sheila to marry Gerald not only for her benefit but also for his‚ as Gerald’s father’s business (Crofts
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them all. He is the only man who‚ in one night‚ managed to tell the family all that the family itself had been ignoring and pretending not to see for a long time. He barges in on them when they are celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft therefore a very happy‚ jolly environment and turns it into the most stressful‚ horrible evenings the family has ever encountered. The Inspector is described by the stage directions saying that he wasn’t a particularly tall man and yet he
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Arthur Birling says: “If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with‚ it would be very awkward wouldn’t it?” How does Priestley present ideas about responsibility in An Inspector Calls? In An Inspector Calls‚ one of the main themes is responsibility. Priestley is interested in our personal responsibility for our own actions and our collective responsibility to society. The play explores the effect of class‚ age and sex on people’s attitudes to
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respectable town of Brumley. Living on the edge of the town is the Birling family; this consists of Mr Birling‚ Mrs Birling‚ Sheila Birling and Eric birling. At the beginning of the play the family is having a small meal to celebrate the engagement of Gerald Croft and Sheila‚ The Story starts as the Birling family is having a meal when unexpectedly an inspector rings at the door. The inspector explains to the family that a young woman had committed suicide. He then goes on to tell each member of the family
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option. The inspector is seen as a man with integrity and a sense of authority. This is shown in the quote: “Yes but why are you saying that to him?-- I know‚ somehow he makes you.” The above quote is said by Sheila Birling and is directed at Gerald Croft when he confesses to the inspector what exactly he did to Eva Smith. I thought it was an appropriate quote to choose as it shows how the inspector has a certain power over them; how he can enable them to confess their secrets without them even
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debated. Stephen Crofts ‘Concepts of National Cinema‚’ Susan Hayward’s ‘Reframing National Cinema’ and Andrew Higson’s ‘Limiting the imagination of National Cinema’ attempt to define the tricky boundaries of what the term national cinema means and the impacts it has on the way in which audiences perceive these types of films. One of the key areas of debate in the discussion is determining what the idea of nationalism and the nation-state mean in a world that is becoming globalised. Crofts uses Anderson’s
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