Related GCSE J.B. Priestley essays

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   Inspector Calls A Grade

   the 1945 audience read or watch the play, they can almost compare the old generation to the new and recognise the different attitudes. It is evident that Mr Birling is a man of money and it seems that he is only driven by money and success.

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   inspector calls

   for 5 months, he had given her money and a place to live at his friend's house. The Inspector keeps Gerald going by interrupting him when he takes frequent pauses. 'Come along Mr. Croft, what happened?' This makes it seem that he is rather impatient towards him.

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   inspector calls

   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

2. 

   AN INPSECTOR CALLS

   The fact he cares only about himself and his family and not about anyone else in the world. We know this to be true, as just before the inspector arrives at their manor, Mr Birlings voices his philosophy on life to the other members dining around the table.

1. 

   Inspector Calls

   Priestley depicts Mr Birling in this way because he is such a capitalist and believes in completely the opposite to Priestley. So Priestly had inserted the Inspector in the play to educate the Birling's and Gerald about values of society especially Eric and Shelia whose generation in a few years

2. 

   inspector calls

   Priestly set his play after world war one because he wanted to see if the division between social class broke as we already now the Birlings were apart of the higher class. The term morality play from my personal knowledge means a meaning behind the story line.The meaning by morality

1. 

   Inspector calls

   He shows how the family are very well off, with "dessert plates" and "champagne glasses" as well as other expensive items. However there is also a sense of formality and distance between the family members as he tells us that "men are in tails and white ties" and that it is "not cosy and homelike".

2. 

   inspector calls

   They are around the dining table and the maid Edna is clearing the table which has on it champagne glasses, dessert plates etc, then she places a cigar box atop it. The occasion that night was to celebrate the engagement of Arthur Birling's daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft.