An Inspector Calls

• All five are in evening dress of the period - Stage Directions


  Shows wealth
• Hardheaded practical man of business - Mr Biring


  egotistical, has business experience, not moral. Treats the marriage as business
• There isn't a chance of war... impossible - Mr Birling


  Arrogance made clear by his confident views. Audience manipulated to dislike him, as all lived and lost fam through the war
• Lower costs and higher prices - Mr Birling


  Driven by money/ capitalistic views. S`ees engagement as chance for more money, shows greed, 1 of 7 deadly sins
• Silly little war scares - Mr Birling


  Many readers lost family in the war, was not silly or Little to them. makes the reader dislike character
• wretched girls suicide - Mr Birling


  Used in derogatory manner, implied not worth sympathy, probably because of her lower clas
• Exactly the same port your father gets - Mr Birling


  Trying to suck up to gerald
• Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things. - Mrs Birling


  Embarrassed by her husband lower class, she reminds of rules which shows she is socially superior
• Girls of that class - Mrs Birling


  No respect for lower classes, she believes 'that class' are unaware of what it's like in the real world which is opposite to Priestley's message that upper-class arent aware of the real world and what it is like to live in it.
• Oh-its wonderful! Look-Mummy-isnt it a beauty - Sheila


  Shows materialism and childishness, concerned about appearance. implies the rings confirmation of business not love
• But these girls aren't cheap labour-they're people - Sheila


  Priestly uses changed Sheila to express his opinions of 'capitalism benefits few and makes many miserable
• "So i'm really responsible?" and "No, not really. It was my own fault." - Sheila


  Both should change and accepting responsibility for what she has done. rhetorical question demonstrates her acknowledgement of her crew ways
• Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? - Eric


  Very early on, shows potential and foreshadows his change to socialist. seen as an echo of Priestley's voice
• You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he is in trouble. - Eric


  Relationship is not very good, shows true that they invest too much into business and not enough time in the children otherwise, would've noticed his drinking problem
• She was a good sport - Eric


  Patronising of lower class, sport is a hobby/ passtime, very insulting when related what he did to Eva.
• I didn't feel about her as she felt about me - gerald


  shows he didnt truly care for her and used her like eric
• I'm rather more - upset - by this business than i probably appear. - Gerald


  Wants to win over Mr Birling so tries to agree with him. he's sad about the death but doesn't show to agree with Mr Birling
• Dressed in a plain, darkish suit of the period - Stage Direction abt inspector


  Darkish shows imagery of ominous/sinister, foreshadow? plain suit hide his class and means any outward appearances is only what he says
• They will be taught in fire and blood and anguish - Inspector


  Foreshadows upcoming war, short sentence could represent intent todeliver opinions as facts, more powerful
• I dont play golf, - Inspector


  Create mystery by saying what he doesn't do rather than what he does do
• Good night - Inspecotr


  Insincere/sarcastic. Basic and sudden ending which emphasises his previous speech
• Goole. G double O-L-E. - Inspector


  To subtly emphasise to the reader that his name is a homophone relating to the supernatural