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AN INSPECTOR CALLS

        

        We can tell straight away that the Birling family are very wealthy just by the first few words “The dining-room” Page 1 and it was quite a thing to have a dining room in the 1912 “the Titanic- she sails next week” Page 7 also it has that they smoke “cigar box and cigarettes” Page 1 this also makes me think that they will be very spoilt and they will think they are the best and they wont to anything for free. We can see that it will properly be a really big family just by the size of the house “Large suburban house” Page 1, this also makes me think that they will get into trouble a lot because there’s more of them and they can blame it on each other and I also think that there will be a lot of arguments in the house as there will properly be a lot of people so I think they will like their drink “champagne glasses” Page 1. To also show they are very wealthy they have a maid “parlour maid” Page 1 which I think Mr Birling puts it on because it says he has a social superior “social superior” Page 1, which also makes me think he’s using his wife because I bet he’s one of these men who pick a very pretty girl just to show her off to contacts and drags her to every meeting. I also think Mr Birling was pampered to when he was a child because I think that he will keep saying his children are the best and they cant do anything wrong and they went to a very good school and got very good grades. There is also a character called Gerald Croft who I can imagine as a very clever man who work and works but at the end is the character that comes off the best. There is also Eric who I think will be the loud one and drink al night until the next morning and I think Mr Birling will kind of disown him.

        The first scene shows the having a good chat and celebrating something.

        This play keeps you in suspense all the time like when Edna (the cook) open the door and its inspector Goole “sit down inspector” Page 11, you can tell he wasn’t expecting it by the way it all went quite around the dinner table “after a pause” Page 11, then about 5 lines down they leave you in suspense again by saying “a young lady died” Page 11. The structure of the play is amazing because they bring the inspector on at a good time just when they are having dinner and a celebration they are all in deep shock “just when we were celebration somebody happens to die. When the inspectors there they feel trapped not just in the room but in their mind and they don’t want to say anything in case they get accused. I love the idea of the real time affect because you can really follow it and it feels like you know how they feel. It also makes it more real life which is better because we as an audience love watching a play were the set is nearly always the same and there aren’t lots of characters so we get confused and when something does happen it comes as a big shock to everybody. Act 1 and Act 2 are so similar in many ways because in act 1 they find out about all of the affairs and problems that they have all had. Also when the inspector has the door opened for him he just walks in and starts talking no like do you want me to come back later or are you busy, he thinks he’s the best and the leader and he’s higher than everybody and nobody can knock him down. When the inspector leaves its one of the biggest arguments because Mr Birling is blaming everybody even when it wasn’t them “you’re the one I blame for this” Page 57. They always try to pile the trouble on each other just if it gets them in the clear. Also Eric and Mr Birling have a very bad relationship because your father would normally stick up for you but he doesn’t and Eric says “you’re not a dad you can talk to”

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        There are only a few characters in the play but all of them have deadly parts to play. My favourite is Eric because he is like me very loud and always happy and takes life as a big joke and has no care in the world, first of all I will talk about Eric and his relationship with everybody, he very poor “just got money of other people every little helps” Page 53 I think he spent all of his money on drink and ladies and maybe even drugs. Everybody says he’s guilty “its you” I think they think that ...

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