Inspector Flashcards
Ts1: the inspector promotes a message of social and moral responsibility for others.
‘Public men… have responsibilities as well as privileges’
‘We’ll have to share our guilt’
‘A chain of events’
Ts2: the inspector challenges the Birlings’ prejudice, complacency and hypocrisy.
‘Lonely, half starved, desperate’
‘Your daughter isn’t living on the moon’
‘You slammed the door in her face’
‘Used her as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person’
‘It’s better to ask for the Earth than to take it’
Ts3: I functions as a mouthpiece for Priestley’s socialist views.
‘We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other…’
‘Fire and blood and anguish’
‘Young ones…more impressionable’
Topic sentences
Ts1: promotes message of having to accept social and moral responsibility for others.
Ts2: challenges Birlings complacency, prejudice and hypocrisy.
Ts3: acts as a mouthpiece for Priestley’s socialist views
‘It’s better to ask for the Earth than to take it’
L= hyperbolic metaphor emphasises unreasonable nature of Mr B’s exploitation of his workers; they have asked for a pay rise; he exploits them for low wages without asking.
‘Lonely, half starved, desperate’
L= emotive language. Inspector uses emotive language to try to provoke a sense of guilt in the Birlings so they feel responsible for what happened to her. R= makes audience sympathise with Eva and realise how vulnerable she is.
‘Young ones… more impressionable
C= reflects Priestley’s hope that social change lay with the younger generation.
R= targeted at younger MC audience members post WW2 to change society for the better- NHS in 1948 etc
Priestley advocate for Fabian society.
‘Your daughter isn’t living on the moon
L= hyperbolic imagery. Sheila should know what is happening in her wild and not be protected from it. Only by understanding her world can she begin to change it for the better.
‘We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other…’
L= metaphor. Health of body (D= society) depends on its component parts (D= how individuals in society treat each other. Political message
‘Fire and blood and anguish’
L= violent tricolon emphasises his message of need for social change. R= audience in 1946 lived through two WW. Realise need for social change to avoid more suffering.
‘You slammed the door in her face’
L= metaphor/idiom= violence of image emphasises terrible consequences of Mrs B’s refusal to help Daisy. R= audience feel disgust at her behaviour.
‘Used her as if she was an animal, a thing,not a person’
L= noun choices emphasise how he dehumanises Eva. R= describes Eric’s horrible treatment of her- makes audience feel pity for her as her body treated as a commodity. Audience feel horrible at this treatment of her. C/I= Marxist perspective- human beings reduced to means of production in capitalist society.
‘Public men… have responsibilities as well as privileges’
L= nouns emphasise that any person in public office eg. Mr B as magistrate, have a responsibility to protect other members of society and treat them with equality, not abuse their position of power for personal privilege.
‘We’ll have to share our guilt’
L= verb ‘share’- we are all responsible for each other in society; our actions have an impact on others.
‘A chain of events’
L= metaphor- one action leads to another and all actions have consequences; no one person is responsible for what happened to Eva.
C= Inspector is a political construct for Priestley’s socialist views demanding social reform+ welfare state.
Advocate for Fabian society who were a group that wished for gradual social reform like introduction of Welfare state. C= NHS 1948. They also campaigned for a minimum wage.
