Vocabulary

• Morality play


  -each character has links with 7 deadly sins e.g. Sheila with envy
• AIC play of fan fiction

  -detective normally starts from something small and expands but here its the other way round

  -Priestley does this to show society is guilty of neglecting its own members
• "Because of what happened to her then may have determined what happened to her afterwards & what happened to her afterwards may have driven her to suicide. A chain of events"

  -andiplosis

  -"chain";-object that embodies physical linking

  -connotes heavines, imprisonment maybe saying these "events" weigh the family down
• All 3 acts happen in dining room of Birling's house


  -could be become they are self-absorbed; don't think of anything outside their own life

  -suggests how the Birlings are egocentric, and are disconnected from outside world

  -by lack of change of setting, Priestley allows us to focus on play and its message
• Vagueness of IG "I don't play golf"


  -we learn things he doesn't do rather than what he does

  -lack of human sense suggests we are closer to his message
• Lust


  (Eric, Gerald)
• Gluttony


  (Mr and mrs Birling, Gerald)
• Greed


  (Mr and mrs Birling, Gerald)
• Sloth


  (Eric)
• Wrath


  (Sheila)
• Envy


  (Sheila)
• Pride


  (Gerald, mr and mrs Birling)