an inspector calls

• this play was written in 1945 by set in 1912
• the play was written by j.b priestly
• 'heavily comfortable but not cosy and home like' act 1
• 'all five in the evening dress of the period' act 1
• emulate- imitate or copy someone's style or manner
• scrutinise- to inspect someone in great detail
• under scrutiny- being inspected
• provincial- to come from an outside small town into a more sophisticated town like londond
• 'a rather cold woman and her husbands social superior' aurther birlings wife
• shiela is a pretty girl in her early 20s very pleased with life and rather excited'
• 'is an attractive chap about thirty rather too manly to be dandy but very much the well bred young man about town' act 1 gerald croft
• the fact that the play is set in one room only amplifies the discomfort of the no escape.
• fractious- restless, difficult to manage, or easily annoyed
• 'pink and intimate' act 1 opening scene
• 'harsh spotlight' act 1 opening scene
• infantilise- to treat an adult in a childish way
• altruistic- showing concern for others without expecting anything in return
• 'unsinkable, absoloutley unsinkable'- mr birling act 1
• 'i speak as a hard headed business man' mr birling act 1
• (half serious, half playful) yes except for all summer when you never came near me and i had wondered what had happened to you- sheila act 1
• 'when your married youll relise that men with important work to do have to spend nearly all their time and energy on business, youll have to get used to it just as i did' mrs birling act 1
• mrs birling adheres to the patriarchal expectations of the Edwardian era
• 'i speak as a hard headed business man who knows how to take risks and knows what hes about' act 1 mr birling
• 'we've passed the worst of it' act 1 mr birling
• 'were in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity' act 1 mr birling
• 'the interests of the capitalist are properly protected' act 1 mr birling
• 'the germans dont want war' act 1 mr birling
• 'i say there isnt a chance of war' mr birling act 1
• 'wars impossible' act 1 mr birling
• 'youll be marrying at a good time' act 1 mr birlinh
• ' now you three young people' act 1 mr birling
• 'except russia of course which will always be behindhand naturally' act 1 mr birling
• 'higher prices and lower costs' act 1 mr birling
• sycophantic- behaving in a flattering way in order to gain something from others
• 'a man has to make his own way - look after himself - and his family, that way he shouldnt come to any harm' act 1 mr birling
• 'the way these cranks write and talk now youd think everyone has to look after everybody else as if were all mixed up together like bees in a hive- community and all that nonsense'
• the door bell rings and interrupts mr birlings capitalism speech harshly as a symbol of j.b priestly challenging capitalisms ignorance
• priestly makes mr birling unlikable so that the audience associate capitalism with him, making them more susceptible to socialism.
• anadiplosis - a chain of events. events that caused pain. pain that causes anger. anger that causes murder.
• 'she was lively looking girl' Mr birling act 1