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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   AN INPSECTOR CALLS

   Another quote that which helps underlines his careless attitude, can be found when he is talking to his wife about the whole incidence and inquest, he says: I must say, Sybil, that when this comes out at the inquest, it will not do us any good.

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   Inspector calls

   Priestley also uses this as a dramatic device skilfully. The lighting first used is described as "pink and intimate" showing a 'warm' and 'joyful' atmosphere. However the audience gets the sense that it is just a screen covering up secrets that the family try to hide and that they are in fact looking through at the shield they put

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   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

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   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

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   inspector calls

   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

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   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.

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   inspector calls

   Inspector Goole's way of speaking is strange too, 'he speaks carefully, weightily and has the disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before speaking'. The Inspector looks sounds and behaves differently to a normal Inspector. He may appear to be someone from the past or the future - a time traveler.