Inspector Calls Points

Question 1

Responsibility

Answer 1

• causes increased moral maturity if recognised
• has serious consequences if neglected
• wrongly dismissed by older generation

Question 2

Gender Roles

Answer 2

• economic and sexual exploitation of lower class women
• over-protection of upper class women
• perpetuation of traditional gender norms by upper class

Question 3

Social Class

Answer 3

• entitlement of upper class
• exploitation of lower class
• causes polarisation of society

Question 4

Generational Divide

Answer 4

• conflict over socialism vs capitalism and views on social responsibility
• conflict over gender roles
• differences in capability to change

Question 5

Socialism vs Capitalism

Answer 5

• capitalism as exploitative and self-centred
• socialism as the solution
• polarisation of society (shown through generational divide)

Question 6

The Inspector

Answer 6

• disruption to the current capitalist system
• socialist message
• promoting change in the younger generation

Question 7

Mr Birling

Answer 7

• selfish capitalist
• absent father and husband to his family
• stubborn in his ideology

Question 8

Mrs Birling

Answer 8

• not taking responsibility
• perpetuation of gender stereotypes
• reinforcement of class system

Question 9

Sheila

Answer 9

• innocent/naïve at start
• empathetic towards lower class/taking responsibility
• defiant towards traditional gender roles

Question 10

Eric

Answer 10

• becomes more assertive
• sexual exploiter of lower class women
• grows to accept socialist beliefs

Question 11

Gerald

Answer 11

• greedy (economically exploiting proletariat)
• manipulative (sexually exploiting prostitutes)
• stubborn in his capitalist views

Question 12

Eva Smith

Answer 12

• symbol of the proletariat, victim of the capitalist system
• symbol of lower class women, victim of the patriarchal system
• symbol to show the consequences of neglecting social responsibility

Question 13

Sheila and Gerald

Answer 13

• superficial and transactional, lack of emotional connection
• Gerald’s protection of Sheila, rooted in patriarchal expectations, lack of communication
• grows to become more complex, no longer based on blind trust

Question 14

Sheila and Eric

Answer 14

• immature at the beginning
• tightening due to shared growing defiance against parents
• eye-opening due to shared empathy for the lower class

Question 15

Sheila and her parents

Answer 15

• protective, infantilising
• strained due to differences in perception of the lower class
• increasingly divisive over responsibility and ideology

Question 16

Inspector and older Birlings

Answer 16

• hostile due to differences in views on social class
• tense due to differences in views on gender roles
• confrontative due to stubbornness of older generation

Question 17

Inspector and younger Birlings

Answer 17

• impartial, unprejudiced
• didactic (socialism vs capitalism)
• empowering (generational divide)

Question 18

Mr Birling and Mrs Birling

Answer 18

• built on like-minded capitalist beliefs
• transactional, lack of emotional connection
• reinforcing patriarchal standards