An Inspector Calls: Inspector

Question 1

jAct 1 - first description: stage directions

Answer 1

‘impression of massiveness’
‘speaks carefully, weightily…habit of looking hard’

Question 2

Act 1: asserts authority

Answer 2

‘(cutting through, massively)’

Question 3

Act 1: he’s the foil to Mr B

Answer 3

“it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”

Question 4

Act 1: isn’t intimidated/threatened by Mr B’s supposed connections

Answer 4

“(dryly) I don’t play golf”

Question 5

Inspector as a foil to Mr B: 25.9 and 26.9.24

Question 6

Inspector’s final speech in Act 3: quote 1

Answer 6

“there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us”

he really means that Eva Smith isn’t alone in her experience in being exploited by the upper class. Priestley draws attention to many unspoken injustices that take place in society among the working class. repetition of ‘millions’ emphasises/makes Birlings the magnitude of the problem, not that there is one isolated case of maltreatment. metonymy of “Eva Smiths and John Smiths” shows the universal extent of suffering

Question 7

Inspector’s final speech in Act 3: quote 2

Answer 7

“We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other”

Question 8

Inspector’s final speech in Act 3: quote 3

Answer 8

if people do not learn the lesson that we are responsible for each other, they will be taught it in “fire, blood and anguish”