The inspector

Question 1

Key ideas of the inspector

Answer 1

• Acts as mouthpiece to priesties socialist views
• Represents society’s moral consciousness
• Could be a manifestation of the Birlings guilt
• Omniscient
• Views the treatment of Eva smith as a crime against humanity

Question 2

Inspector key quotes

Fire….

Answer 2

blood and anguish
Refernce to the war
Breaking fourth wall as he is talking directly to audince
Active reminder of the consquences of persucuting 1 group in sociey
Acts as a warning to the audince

Question 3

Inspector key quotes

‘we are

Answer 3

members of one body’

Question 4

Inspector key quote

‘But remember this.

Answer 4

One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us’

Not just confined to Eva smith
Common universal figure
Reminder there are more people in her situation
use of short sentences symbolises the limit of society

Question 5

‘Its better to ask

Answer 5

for the world than to take it’

Question 6

‘What happened to her

Answer 6

.. a chain of events’

Question 7

‘Burnt her

Answer 7

inside out…. she was in great agony’

Question 8

‘carefully’ and ‘weighty’ ideas

Answer 8

• Adverbs
• Lexical field of size
• Words carry a deeper meaning

Question 9

‘brighter’ and ‘harder’ ideas

Answer 9

• Adjectives