AN INSPECTOR CALLS - Themes

• Act


  the name given to the major divisions of a play
• capitalist society


  a society where individuals can own and run businesses to make profit
• dramatic irony

  where the audience have greater knowledge than the characters on stage
• socialist society


  a society that is based on the cooperative ownership and running of businesses
• alderman


  a senior member of a town council
• hypocrisy


  a form of insincerity
• magistrate


  a person who acts as a judge in a magistrates' court
• deference


  an expression of respect shown towards a person deemed to be superior in social rank, ,wealth, or wisdom
• euphemism


  a word or phrase used in place of one that might be considered offensive
• strike


  to stop of working for a fixed or unlimited time to protest against low pay or unfair treatment
• complacency


  a form of self-satisfaction or smugness
• juxtaposition


  placing two images or ideas side by side to highlight the difference between them
• antagonist


  the character who opposes the lead character
• protagonist


  the main character
• climax


  the highest or most intense part of the play or a turning point in the action
• nemesis


  a Greek tragedy, a person or force that inflicts punishment or revenge
• nonsense


  Community and all that ________.
• fiddlesticks


  You'll hear some people say that war's inevitable. And to that, I say ___________.

  
• Forty-six thousand


  _______________________________eight - hundred tons!

  
• purple-faced


  Like one of those _________-__________ old men.
• family

  I insist upon being one of the _____________ now.

  
• son-in-law


  You're just the kind of ______-____-_____ I always wanted.
• lower costs


  Working together - for __________ ________ and higher prices!

  
• hard-headed businessman


  I speak as a

  _________-__________

  ___________________.
• peace

  There'll be ____________ and prosperity...
• Honours List


  I might find my way on to the next __________ ______________.

  
• himself


  A man has to look after ____________ ...
• strong disinfectant


  She'd swallowed a lot of ________ ___________.

  
• line of enquiry


  One person and one ________ ___ ________ at a time...
• wretched girl

  It has nothing whatever to do with the _________ ________'s suicide
• chain

  A __________ of events.
• ask questions

  It's my duty to ______ ______________.
• tough luck


  He could have kept her on... I call it ________ ________.
• ask for the earth

  It's better to ______ ______ ______ ________ than to take it.
• cheap labour


  But these girls aren't ________ ________ - they're people.
• nasty mess


  A nice little promising life there, and a ________ _______ somebody's made of it.
• respectable citizens


  After all, we're _________ __________ and not criminals.
• suicide business


  I don't come into this __________ ________.
• last summer


  It was all over and done with _____ _________.
• Daisy Renton


  First, she changed her name to ____________ ______________.