inspector calls

• Inspector Goole is used as Priestley's mouth piece
• inspector Goole may be an aptronym
• (inspector Goole) "we are members of one body, we are responsible for one another"
• (Inspector Goole) "because what happened to her then may have determined what happened to her afterwards, what happened to her afterwards may have driven her to suicide"
• anadiplosis is when the second clause of a sentence repeats the same words as the first clause e.g., I like cake a lot, I like cake so much I eat it everyday
• (Mr Goole) "I dont play golf"
• Mr Goole uses onomastic symbolism as Mr Goole proceeds to haunt the Birlings about their involvement with Eva smith especially with the ouroboros of an ending we get
• onomastic symbolism is when a writer uses a characters name to convey a deeper idea about that character
• characters are used as constructs
• in the question there will be a clear command word, keep referring to this
• the working class are represented by eva smith
• the birling family represent the bourgeoisie class
• (Inspector Goole) : "we often do on the young ones they're more impressionable"
• (Inspector Goole) "if that lesson is not learnt then it will be taught in blood and anguish"
• (Inspector Goole) "There are millions and millions of Eva smiths and John smiths"
• (Inspector) - "it would do us all a bit of good if we sometimes put ourselves in the places of these young women"
• eva smith and john smith are used as synecdoches for the whole of the working class
• "fire and blood and anguish" connotes an ecclesiastical imagery with a foreboding tone
• Inspector Goole: "Fire blood and anguish" - ecclesiastical imagery
• (Mr Birling) "Giving us the port Edna?"
• (Mr birling)- describes himself as a hard headed business man
• (Mr Birling) "A man has to look after himself and make his own way"
• (Mr birling) "lower wages, higher costs"
• an inspector calls was written set in 1912 but written in 1945
• (Mr birling)- "The Germans don't want war"
• (Mr Birling) "Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable."
• initially we see how Sheila's capitalistic ideologies have shaped her sense of worth e.g., "I feel like I'm really engaged now." she needs a material object to see secure in her relationship with Gerald
• Mr Birlings early use of dramatic irony has set a specific precedence for the rest of the play on how the audience views him and how seriously we are to take his opinions
• (Mr Birling) "There's every excuse for what both your mother and I did"
• Mr birling is a chauvinistic man
• eric (Stage directions) "Half shy, half assertive"
• (Sheila to eric) "you're squiffy"
• (Eric) "In that state when a chap easily turns nasty"
• (Eric)- and that's when it happened. and I don't even remember - that's the hellish thing
• (Eric)- "not that kind of father a chap can go to when he's in trouble"
• (Eric)- "we did her in all right"
• (Inspector)- "we are members of one body"
• (Eric)- "Its what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters"
• (Sheila)- "You're squiffy"
• squiffy is contemporary slang for the 1912's which shows the audience how eric and Sheila adapt their language to fit the time, this perhaps foreshadows their ability to change and adapt unlike their robust parents