AIC analysis

Question 1

The lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inspector arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder

Answer 1

to create atmosphere/tone, symbolic of the inspector interupting their luxuarious life style. also showshow IG shines a light on their capitalist behaviour.

Question 2

Mr B

A heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech

Characterisation

Answer 2

Shows he indulges because of his working class background and is less aware of social etiquette but looking to pass on his company.

Question 3

Mrs B

His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husbands social superior

Characterisation

Answer 3

Marries below her social class, has capitalistic views and has no understanding out of her class, lacks empathy

Question 4

Sheila

a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and very excited

characterisation

Answer 4

shows society focuses on beauty, judged by appearence - not beautiful, younger views but no life purpose - protected by family

Question 5

Gerald

an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about town

characterisation

Answer 5

a privileged member of the aristocracy, younger but has older values, masciline and affirmative

Question 6

Eric

in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive

characterisation

Answer 6

unsure of himself and finacially dependent but symbollic redemention but doesnt take responsibilty for actions towards eva but has socialist views

Question 7

Mr B

The Germans don’t wants war. Nobody wants war..silly little war scares

Answer 7

Dramatic irony to undermine / humiliate Mr B, shows arrogance, confidence and undereducation

Question 8

Mr B

The Titanic .. unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable

Answer 8

shows unreliability, and dislikability, he would’ve known people on board, confident - has no doubt

Question 9

Mr B

a man has to look after himself .. the way some of these cranks talk

Answer 9

individualistic, capitalistic and selfish views, insulting socialists

Question 10

Mr B

you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive

Answer 10

mocking socialistic idiologies, doesnt want to mix classes, being dissmissive and patronising

Question 11

IG

an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness .. he speaks carefully, weightily and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person

characterisation

Answer 11

he selects words for impact, has responsibility, uncomfortable. intense, relentless methodical questioning, has authoroitive presesnce

Question 12

Mr B

It’s my duty to keep labour costs down

characteristation

Answer 12

beleives it’s his moral role of power to exploit his workers

Upper classes

Question 13

IG

It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it

Answer 13

Shows how dissconnected the upper classes are, contrasts victims and upper classes and how Mr B is too occupied with wealth

metaphor

Upper classes

Question 14

IG

(dryly) I don’t play golf

Answer 14

not impressed by Mr B connections with authority and arrogance, humiliating him

Question 15

Eric

Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages

Answer 15

eric is socially aware, contrast Mr B

Old vs young

Question 16

Sheila

but these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people

Answer 16

recognises people should be treated fairly. humanises and sympathizes workers, adopting socialist ideaologies

Old vs young

Question 17

Mrs B

Girls of that class/sort

Answer 17

prejedice, builds a wall between classes, diminishing and condesending them, lack of respect

Question 18

Sheila

You musn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us

Answer 18

Shows sheila socialism - moral welfare + responsibilty,

Question 19

Gerald

She was very pretty - soft brown hair

Answer 19

Obejectifises Eva, societys conventional beauty standards, make her seem vunerable and tender, common and unremarkable chacteristics,

Gender

Question 20

Sheila

You were a wonderful fairy prince

Answer 20

traditional gender roles - masculinity, magical, fantastical relationship with eva,

Gender

Question 21

IG

Public men, have responsibilites as well as privledges.

Answer 21

Socialistic ideaologies of society, shows difference between men and their use of power,

Question 22

Mrs B

Go and look for the father of the child

Answer 22

Trying to sound authoritive, irony, ideas of individual responsibility and accountability

Question 23

Eric

I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty

Answer 23

abusing him power over eva, diminishes behaviour as childish stupidity not a crime, colloquiel lang to normalise behaviour, reducing moral responsibility

Question 24

Eric

She was pretty and a good sport

Answer 24

misogynistic attitudes, women being exploited and objectified, eric is shallow and arrogant

Question 25

Eric

You’re not the kind of father a chap can go to when he’s in trouble

Answer 25

reveals relationship and lack of emotional connection, shows what Mr B prioritizes

Question 26

IG

Each of you killed her. Remember her

Answer 26

Summary of his actions, moral message, reflects socialism and class accountability

Question 27

IG

If she was an animal, a thing, not a person

Answer 27

summaries gender roles, reminds working class auidence of how they’re being treated, dehumanises to something that can be controlled

Question 28

IG

millions and millions and millions of eva smiths and john smiths

Answer 28

Shows how many people are suffering, universal issues of lower classes,

repetition - triad

Question 29

IG

they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish

Answer 29

semantic field of war (WW1-imperalistic war), polysyndetic listing - lengthens scale of suffering

Question 30

Sheila

Between us, we drove that girl to suicide

Answer 30

acknowledges collective guilt and resposibility, confronts the uncomfortable truth, earns redemption, show moral evasion of priviledged and selfobsorbed.