inspector calls

• "Sharp"

  • lit= interrupts MR B speech about individualism
  • met=he is distrupting the B's dogmatic individualism
  • sym= P is implying we must "sharp[ly]" disrupt n destablise capitalism = "cutting in" to its callousness/ misanthropy
  • cutting n sharp= aggression n force= necessary for interruption of capitalism
  • forcible overthrow
  • P encourages 1945 audience take "sharp" action= avoiding regression back to edwardian capitalism
• "fire blood and anguish"

  • sym= "fire"= hell; damnation of B's sins (sins of capitalists)
  • imagery of hell= P elevates IG - omnipotent/god-like
  • blood= violence n pain of WW1 - menn od play would go on suffer in the inevitable war that MR B trivialised as "silly" = foreshadows war = 1945 audience knew to be inevitable again magnifies power of IG, socialism
  • "anguish"= predict end of play = MR B "sharp" phone call = trapped in cycle of "anguish" / instability = refuses change; threat to audience too
• "we must not build a wall"

  • in other words her family "must not" separate themselves from ES
  • sym=wall = division created between bourgeoises and the proletariats
  • Wall= callous barriers bourgeoises put up to ignore the injustice of capitalism
  • S sees the wall will be "knocked flat"; just like the Titanic, destruction of the "wall" = edwardian social hierarchy = inevitable
• "pretty" "good sport"

  • an excuse for ill treatment towards her
  • P commenting on edwardian england = notice that E is being judged on her appearance rather than personality or identity
  • "pretty"= repeated= bourgeoise objectifying proletariats; "pretty" "thing" of "that class" = humanity and identity is ignored
  • good sport= trivialises their relationship
  • sport= relationship as a game to eric= callousness
  • despite he becomes responsible, P uses E's treatment of eva to expose the bourgeoises impulses to dehumanise and objectify proletariats