Inspector calls analysis

• Inspector


  • Shifts from antagonist to protagonist
  • Exerts power and authority through various techniques
• Protagonist


  The first or leading actor, the main character
• Antagonist


  The principal opponent or foil of the main character
• Shift of inspector from antagonist to protagonist

  1. Established through various techniques

  2. Analysed in detail
• Stage directions describing the inspector

  • Connote power, confidence, authority
  • Demonstrate the inspector's control and shift in power dynamics
• Topic management


  Who decides what gets talked about and how in a conversation
• Turn taking


  Who speaks the most or least in a conversation
• Back channeling


  Words used to show that you are listening and agree
• Before inspector arrives


  Mr Birling topic manages, speaks the most, characters back channel him
• After inspector arrives


  Inspector topic manages, controls turn taking, characters back channel him
• Sentence mood


  • Imperatives and declaratives used by inspector to exert power and control
• Mode of address


  The names used to address one another, indicating power dynamics
• Inspector uses blunt, graphic language that shocks the Birling family
• Blunt language and graphic imagery force the audience to confront the suffering and pain
• Blunt language contrasts with the Birling family's use of euphemistic language and excuses
• Euphemistic language is used to keep labor costs down and is full of excuses and utter rubbish
• The blunt language used by the inspector includes graphic imagery and short, blunt declarative sentences
• Misery


  Emotional pain and suffering
• Agony


  Physical pain and suffering
• Misery and agony


  Juxtaposition of emotional and physical pain, conveying the all-consuming suffering
• The inspector exerts power and becomes the protagonist, driving the story forward
• Collectivism


  The practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it
• Social responsibility


  The idea that everyone in society has a responsibility to look after one another
• The inspector symbolizes socialist values of collectivism and social responsibility
• The metaphor flips the idea of taking versus asking, arguing against capitalism's selfishness
• Ava's suffering


  • No work
  • No money coming in
  • Living in lodgings
  • No relatives to help
  • Few friends
  • Lonely
  • Half-starved
• The synthetic list creates a steamroller effect, emphasizing the range of Ava's deprivation
• The inspector places responsibility for Ava's plight on the selfish capitalists and their exploitation of cheap labor
• What Ava needed


  • Advice
  • Sympathy
  • Friendliness
• The tricolon contrasts with the previous list, emphasizing the lack of support Ava received
• When analysing markets, a range of assumptions are made about the rationality of economic agents involved in the transactions
• The Wealth of Nations was written

  1776
• Rational


  (in classical economic theory) economic agents are able to consider the outcome of their choices and recognise the net benefits of each one
• Consumers act rationally by


  Maximising their utility
• Producers act rationally by


  Selling goods/services in a way that maximises their profits
• Workers act rationally by


  Balancing welfare at work with consideration of both pay and benefits
• Governments act rationally by


  Placing the interests of the people they serve first in order to maximise their welfare
• Rationality in classical economic theory is a flawed assumption as people usually don't act rationally
• A firm increases advertising

  Demand curve shifts right
• Demand curve shifting right

  Increases the equilibrium price and quantity